On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:57:19 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > 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
Guys I'm glad that my pointers helped you get it going - but I have to say that soon with xorg-server-1.9 becoming stable HAL and its xml configuration files will be a thing of the past. Still, you have the satisfaction of cracking this one! :-) -- Regards, Mick
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