Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Recently I got tired of my touchpad being too sensitive, and I decided
> to try the synaptics-how-to on the gentoo-wiki. However, when starting
> X I get:

[snip]

> TouchPad no synaptics event device found (checked 17 nodes)

[snip]

> So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong,
> since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't
> know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel
> options that the gentoo-wiki synaptics-how-to recommends.)
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!

I suspect you need these options in your kernel:
Device Drivers
 Input Device Support
  Event Interface (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y)

I also have:
..
  Mice
   PS/2 Mouse
and all the sub-options compiled in:
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LOGIPS2PP=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LIFEBOOK=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y


> For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.

that's nice to know.  Just so this email is accepted by your security
policy, I double-rot13'd the reply.  Note that your comments are now
quadruple-rot13'd, but I think you should be able to decrypt them
without too much hassle.

HTH,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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