Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

[Michal Žeravík]

Antoine Martin wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. Any good hints on how to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there must be something else. Should I rebuild my xorg.conf file? This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it. Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device section") Antoine don't forget to enable Device Manager in kernel (multidevice...) michal