On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Iain and Johan, > > > On 3/12/08, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok. Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad? Otherwise I'm out of > > ideas, sorry... > > I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I waited till this moment. I > can report a similar problem on my laptop. > > The symptoms are pretty much the same as those described by Johan. > However, in my case the Touchpad worked fine (for example, sliding the > finger on the far-right side correctly translated into scrolling). It > was (more or less) after I used a couple of times my Logitech USB > Mouse that the Touchpad defaulted to basic mouse functionality (two > buttons and "mouse pointer" movement). > > At that time I was convinced it was a "coldplugging" problem. When I > found some more free time, and after having survived an "emerge > world", I switched to a (completely) dynamic udev. Still, this did not > solve the problem. Then I was blocked. Following the Wiki Howtos for > configuring the Touchpad did not help much, either. > > How do you think that I could verify that this is a "coldplug/udev" > problem? Could this be the problem, at all? What information that > would help you help me pin-point the problem could I post?
I know nothing about this (udev), so any outside input to this discussion would be good. > > Thanks, > Liviu > > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- ------------------------------------------------ For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
