hi james,

the synaptics driver generally steals the focus of the device
so that userspace programs can't directly access it, see if
the Xorg option 'Option "GrabEventDevice" "false"' helps,
see 'man synaptics' for more info.

cheers,
dmotd

James Dunn wrote:
> I've tried using [hid] and [linuxmouse] and both objects can open the device
> but no data is output from either object. [MouseState] and [cursor] both work
> but I was hoping to get relative values. Is this a driver issue? I'm using
> Ubuntu 8.04 and Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc3. Here's the console output:
> 
> [hid] 0.7, written by Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@eds.org>
>     compiled on Jun 13 2010 at 11:45:43
> 
> Device 0: 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' on '/dev/input/event0'
> Device 1: 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' on '/dev/input/event1'
> Device 2: 'PC Speaker' on '/dev/input/event2'
> Device 3: 'Power Button (FF)' on '/dev/input/event3'
> Device 4: 'Sleep Button (CM)' on '/dev/input/event4'
> Device 5: 'Lid Switch' on '/dev/input/event5'
> Device 6: 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' on '/dev/input/event6'
> Device 7: 'Video Bus' on '/dev/input/event7'
> Device 8: 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' on '/dev/input/event8'
> 
> 
> Supported events:
> 
> Detected:
> [hid] opened device 6 (/dev/input/event6): SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
> print: open 1
> print: device 6
> 
> 
> Also my xorg.conf has this info:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
>     Driver      "synaptics"
>     Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>     Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>     Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>     Option        "HorizEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
>     Option        "VertEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
>     Option        "SHMconfig" "on"
>     Option        "VertTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
>     Option        "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> James

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