Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
> >
> ><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>wrote:
> >> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
> >> sensitivity?
> >> 
> >> All the docs I can find seem to assume two things:
> >>  1) an xorg.conf file
> >>  
> >>  2) the xf86-input-synpatics driver
> >> 
> >> I'm using neither.
> > 
> > You can adjust synaptics changing the configuration on the
> > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file.
> > man 4 synaptic can give you a lot of extra options.
> 
> That only works if you're using the synaptics driver -- which I'm not.
> 
> I haven't figured out how to do that yet.  It was built, since I
> included it in INPUT_DEVICES, but HAL decided not to use it.

What does your Xorg.0.log say about synaptics?

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep synaptics
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
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Regards,
Mick

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