Re: synaptics driver not loaded

kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:36, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

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
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

Thanks for the info..

Here's what I find now.

If I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log after a fresh re-boot I see the following in relation to the synaptics driver:

The driver gets loaded:

(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
       compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
       Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
       ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4

Then the  driver fails to find a valid device??

(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
(**) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.13.5
Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 5 nodes)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard

I've run the hardware browser and the system shows both the internal mouse (the touchpad) and the external usb mouse as /dev/input/mice

Any ideas???

You could backup your xorg.conf file and try to run
system-config-display --reconfig

system-config-display --reconfig
to see if this will add two seperate entries for each device.

Just thoughts that might work for you.

Jim

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