Mick wrote:
Other than setting up udev rules I have tried everything that I could think of. Based on the experiments I ran on two laptops I have come to the following conclusions (or should this be "confusions"? ha, ha):Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" is necessary under Section "ServerLayout" to allow legacy kbd and mouse drivers to load. Setting up a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and then moving to 55- evdev.conf so that the 50-synaptics.conf is read first does not work. Somehow evdev permeates everything, creates multiple devices and hijacks the touchpad, keyboard, etc. Commenting out the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf lines for keyboard and touchpad also does not do the trick, because there is still the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf which seems to be parsed regardless of a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf file being available. So, I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf, commented out the keyboard and touchpad entries in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and can now use my touchpad with horizontal/vertical scroll functions, acceleration, etc. based on settings I added in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50- as well as a multi-language keyboard. Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what have you, unnecessary and annoyingly time wasting. Of course I might have missed something simple in all this kerfuffle, so please chime in if there is a better way around this.
I just did a fresh install on my new rig. I also upgraded my old x86 to the new xorg as well. Keep in mind that I have had hal disabled all this time. I removed all the fdi files that hal needed a long time ago. Everything works fine here on both rigs. I say all that to say this, can you get the config files back to a point where it would be like hal never existed at all? Maybe some config file is being read that shouldn't be read at all?
Also, I generated my xorg.conf file with nvidia-xconfig. After I fixed a kernel issue, it has worked fine ever since. I would be glad to send it off list if needed. You may not want to use it but you may can compare it to yours.
Is it possible you have to much in the way of config files? Dale :-) :-)
