On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:30:01 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
xorg-server:

>It seems that the settings in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
>cause evdev to capture the touchpad and keyboard devices and leave no
>chance to synaptics and kbd drivers (there's also a bug with the
>synaptics driver which is worked around by adding MatchDevicePath
>"/dev/input/event*" in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf).

This is because the 10-evdev.conf file is processed first.

>This is my /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf:

Try renaming 10-evdev.conf to 55-evdev.conf.  This will let the
synaptics driver have first look at the hardware.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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