On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:13AM -0400, Bob Hauck wrote: > I finally figured out what the problem was. If I completely remove
Hello! > any reference to synaptics from my xorg.conf then synclient and > syndaemon work as documented. Apparently it is not a good idea to > have configuration done both by xorg.conf and by HAL. exactly, You are configuring 2 different devices from Xorg's point of view. > I had the same setup in xorg.conf for several years, but apparently > the latest version of the synaptics driver prefers to be configured > via HAL. This is not well-documented in the README or NEWS files. > There is a brief mention of auto-configuration and HAL in > README.Debian but then it goes on to describe manual configuration > using xorg.conf, which is seemingly not the proper method now. well, I wouldn't say "proper". Anyway, can you suggest a change to the README or NEWS file that would help clearing this out? Thanks -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

