[gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Mark Haney]

I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my 
usb optical mouse connected to my laptop.  After install that mouse 
works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not.  Any good hints on how 
to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there 
must be something else.  Should I rebuild my xorg.conf file?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Antoine Martin]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my 
> usb optical mouse connected to my laptop.  After install that mouse 
> works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not.  Any good hints on how 
> to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there 
> must be something else.  Should I rebuild my xorg.conf file?
This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf
points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal
psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it.
Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device section")

Antoine

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Michal Žeravík]

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Antoine Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>   
>> I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my 
>> usb optical mouse connected to my laptop.  After install that mouse 
>> works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not.  Any good hints on how 
>> to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there 
>> must be something else.  Should I rebuild my xorg.conf file?
>>     
> This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf
> points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal
> psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it.
> Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device section")
>
> Antoine
>
>   

don't forget to enable Device Manager in kernel (multidevice...)

michal

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Patrick McLean]

Michal Žeravík wrote:
> Antoine Martin wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my 
>>>usb optical mouse connected to my laptop.  After install that mouse 
>>>works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not.  Any good hints on how 
>>>to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there 
>>>must be something else.  Should I rebuild my xorg.conf file?
>>>    
>>>
>>This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf
>>points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal
>>psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it.
>>Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device section")
>>
>>Antoine
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> don't forget to enable Device Manager in kernel (multidevice...)
You mean RAID/LVM? You don't need that unless you are using RAID or 
volume management. Almost every desktop user doesn't need that stuff, 
the "device manager" you are thinking about is nothing like the windows 
one, it's for managing arrays of drives in servers, not system devices.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Michal Žeravík]

Patrick McLean wrote:
> Michal Žeravík wrote:
>> Antoine Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I 
>>>> left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop.  After install 
>>>> that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not.  Any 
>>>> good hints on how to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that 
>>>> hasn't help, so there must be something else.  Should I rebuild my 
>>>> xorg.conf file?
>>>>   
>>> This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf
>>> points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal
>>> psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it.
>>> Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device 
>>> section")
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>> don't forget to enable Device Manager in kernel (multidevice...)
> You mean RAID/LVM? You don't need that unless you are using RAID or 
> volume management. Almost every desktop user doesn't need that stuff, 
> the "device manager" you are thinking about is nothing like the 
> windows one, it's for managing arrays of drives in servers, not system 
> devices.

If you have synaptic touchpad, you need device manager.
At least what I've tried on notebook. Compile it into kernel.
I afraid that you can't get touchpad working unless it's enabled.

michal
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Daniel Gryniewicz]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:39 +0100, Michal Žeravík wrote:

> If you have synaptic touchpad, you need device manager.
> At least what I've tried on notebook. Compile it into kernel.
> I afraid that you can't get touchpad working unless it's enabled.
> 

No, you need the input device event interface (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV)  It
has nothing to do with MD/DM.

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Michal Žeravík]

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Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:39 +0100, Michal Žeravík wrote:
>
>   
>> If you have synaptic touchpad, you need device manager.
>> At least what I've tried on notebook. Compile it into kernel.
>> I afraid that you can't get touchpad working unless it's enabled.
>>
>>     
>
> No, you need the input device event interface (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV)  It
> has nothing to do with MD/DM.
>
> Daniel
>
>   
Yes, event interface you need as well.
My problem was if compile kernel without devicemanager,
mouse was working only in console (gpm), but not in X.
Spent a lot of hours on that.
Finally I've red dmesg and there it was.... no devman.
If you have still problems, try to enable that.

Michalz

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