On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 12:05, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:50 -0600, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
How do I knopw for sure the synaptics driver is loaded. I suspect it is
not loading in my xorg.conf file.
The package is loaded :
# rpm -qa | grep synaptics
synaptics-0.13.5-5
Try:
$ rpm -qi synaptics
That will tell you about the package. It may not be what you think it
is.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
It is the package I expect. However if I change the primary input device (i.e.
mouse0) in my xorg.conf file to use the synaptics driver via:
Driver "synaptics"
then the mouse does not work at all however if I use :
Driver "mouse"
then it works. This makes me suspect the synaptics driver is not loaded.
Thoughts ?
The synaptics driver should indicate its status in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Here are the relevant portions of my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
[...]
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
[...]
That's how it was configured by a fresh install of FC4 (except for the
SHMConfig option). In theory, the touchpad (and pointing stick) and an
external mouse should all function as expected.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
