Hi Adam,

On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Adam Carter wrote:
> I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in
> 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal.
>
> I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting
> to -r5 or something else?
>
> I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell laptop running amd64
> 2.6.28-gentoo-r5.

This is probably related to the latest xorg update.  Have you had a look at 
this:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

and the link it mentions about synaptics (in case evdev does not work).  
Alternatively, google for synaptics to find what entries you should make in 
your xorg.conf to affect the mouse click function.

There have also been a number of threads in this list on the new xorg and 
associated issues over the last month or so.  Check in Gmane for older posts.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick