[gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed as I've been docked for so long with a usb mouse.

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Iain Buchanan schrieb: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed as I've been docked for so

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Uwe
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:14:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The xorg.0.log error is: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 [...] any suggestions? thanks, Am I right, if I'm assuming, you're using HAL? Maybe you could try this workaround from

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics, you can try to disable it. I hope you don't consider this to be thread hijacking, but can you point me to a simple and high-level (but not

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wise to

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:44, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread j . romildo
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more