On 12/11/2010 08:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-19, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> >> and paste this in it: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> >> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> >> <device> >> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> >> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> > [ synaptic driver options] >> </match> >> </device> >> </deviceinfo> >> >> Then see the examples in the file and man synaptics for finely tuning your >> touchpad. However ... I would at this stage suggest again that you have a >> look at xorg-server-1.9.x instead of trying to get HAL working. > > Brilliant. After tweaking a few of the pressure settings, my touchpad > works great! The hard part is remembering to restart hald as well as > the X server whenever you make any changes... >
Thanks for all the posts. I finally fixed the same problem I've had with my Thinkpad X201. In my case I had to do 1) Edit /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" 2) emerge xorg-drivers (also emerged xorg-server and xorg-x11 to be on the safe side) 3) cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. 4) edit 11-x11-synaptics.fdi 5) /etc/init.d/hald restart 6) restart xorg-server -- Valmor
