From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PRjhp-0003is-15 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:03:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEDEDE06F5; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E598E06F5 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5036140wwi.10 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:59:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=MHcy+1qFjnOnVIgErGSAJRApX497JKsB7pHPQQcSG8A=; b=MvRZreLl12t4oAFo6lnC2hA+cno+tdbVHyVY3IX0fg6ZA13KY8NAc9gNwfcWSEq+oY Ce58JOGPAEVlS7+omoqbf+GxGs+FhvGXnXfWHeKDD38B71tIQMhcqIxJkH/EcG30QCN4 cZP6MPQPi7Ebxx4XtNEC55j9SrFTXWZ5rlxlo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZcGKfdhzAGTwL/COsOCubJYiOGPpgKqTBmepjaT0L5Ol6Zzr5Uc+GPhtMjsoaI3THm AXauTLXQBCSSi+j6UrD0OVcQwaD3KVQzJC4acH+nuZFH3WDVjdSWbhaMsC5amR4nDTUs TB8TzBvD8qhjiLTaRafGPHwvVX+V1l5+8ECQk= Received: by 10.227.142.212 with SMTP id r20mr906310wbu.96.1292151559644; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m13sm1853988wbz.3.2010.12.12.02.59.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:59:18 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:59:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r12; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D04643F.2040706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D04643F.2040706@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8925741.kTO8aqnQkd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012121059.20335.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 30466c5d-0ab5-4cc4-975c-cdf9794dce66 X-Archives-Hash: e392d2cbb01fa91095bd6320c5355f26 --nextPart8925741.kTO8aqnQkd Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrote: > [snip] >=20 > >> and paste this in it: > >>=20 > >> > >> > >>=20 > >> > >> =20 > >> > >> =20 > >> synaptics > >=20 > > [ synaptic driver options] > >=20 > >> > >> =20 > >> > >>=20 > >> > >>=20 > >> 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. > >=20 > > 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... >=20 > 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 >=20 > 1) Edit /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES=3D"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= =20 that soon with xorg-server-1.9 becoming stable HAL and its xml configuratio= n=20 files will be a thing of the past. Still, you have the satisfaction of cracking this one! :-) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart8925741.kTO8aqnQkd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk0EqwgACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbLjQCg3NZk1foEBJGSIDuK7lpWC+E0 kK8AoLvHlg9+po+c8Ns+8Bq4u9jRqpmG =qVp7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8925741.kTO8aqnQkd--