On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:57:19 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> On 12/11/2010 08:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2010-11-19, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> >> and paste this in it:
> >> 
> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> >> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> >> 
> >>  <device>
> >>  
> >>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
> >>     
> >>         <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
> > 
> > [ synaptic driver options]
> > 
> >>     </match>
> >>  
> >>  </device>
> >> 
> >> </deviceinfo>
> >> 
> >> Then see the examples in the file and man synaptics for finely tuning
> >> your touchpad.  However ... I would at this stage suggest again that
> >> you have a look at xorg-server-1.9.x instead of trying to get HAL
> >> working.
> > 
> > Brilliant.  After tweaking a few of the pressure settings, my touchpad
> > works great!  The hard part is remembering to restart hald as well as
> > the X server whenever you make any changes...
> 
> Thanks for all the posts. I finally fixed the same problem I've had with
> my Thinkpad X201. In my case I had to do
> 
> 1) Edit /etc/make.conf  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
> 2) emerge xorg-drivers (also emerged xorg-server and xorg-x11 to be on
> the safe side)
> 3) cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/.
> 4) edit 11-x11-synaptics.fdi
> 5) /etc/init.d/hald restart
> 6) restart xorg-server

Guys I'm glad that my pointers helped you get it going - but I have to say 
that soon with xorg-server-1.9 becoming stable HAL and its xml configuration 
files will be a thing of the past.

Still, you have the satisfaction of cracking this one!  :-)

-- 
Regards,
Mick