The touchpad on my Acer laptop has stopped working in X after a recent `emerge -uD world'. Looking through emerge.log doesn't indicate anything hardware-related. The touchpad shows up in dmesg:
,---- | Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x12a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x204000 | input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5 `---- and in /proc/bus/input/devices: ,---- | I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=12b1 | N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 | S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5 | U: Uniq= | H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 | B: EV=b | B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | B: ABS=11000003 `---- and /proc/config.gz says: ,---- | CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y `---- I'd seen references to cat-ing /dev/input/mouse0 and using the touchpad, but when I do that no output is generated. xorg.conf has: ,---- | Section "InputDevice" | Identifier "TouchPad" | Driver "synaptics" | Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" | Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" | Option "SHMConfig" "on" | EndSection | | Section "ServerLayout" | Identifier "X.org Configured" | Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 | InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer" | InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" | EndSection `---- but the pointer still fails to move (x11-drivers/synaptics has been emerged too). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look to diagnose this issue? I'm running out of ideas at this point. thx -- -- Michael J. Barillier /// http://www.blackwolfinfosys.net/~blackwolf/ _O_| Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently __O| complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally- OOO| specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." -- [email protected] mailing list
