Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

[Søren Christensen <severino@ulvedalen.dk>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:52:51PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> OK, so at the moment both are not installed, but their configuration
> files are still present. The last versions that were installed
> correspond to the old "matching pair" from Sarge. These were probably
> removed because of dependency conflicts during the upgrade. udev was
> most likely not replaced because the Etch version needs a newer kernel
> (2.6.12 or higher). I guess the best thing to do is to install the
> appropriate linux-image-2.6.15, boot into it and then reinstall udev.
> (I am not 100% sure here, it might also be possible to reinstall udev
> before booting into the new kernel.) You will probably see a message
> which asks you to purge the hotplug configuration scripts. After you do
> so, run "udevsynthesize" as root and I would hope that then your
> /dev/input/mouse.. devices will work normally again.
> 
> Regards,
>            Florian

Thank you, Florian, I'll try this out in the evening. I think this
should work, it sounds right.

Thanks again.

/severino