On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > Barry Samuels <barry@beenthere.mail1.co.uk> wrote: > > ... > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to > > be missing > > > > What would that mean? > > Not sure, but in the kernel config, there's something called > CONFIG_INPUT_DEV (Device Drivers / Input device support / Event > interface). From its help: > > "Say Y here if you want your input device events be accessible > under char device 13:64+ - /dev/input/eventX in a generic way. > > To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > module will be called evdev." > > Perhaps your kernel doesn't have this enabled? from the tone of the prior thread, I assume it's a stock kernel, so, OP, let us know if it's not. Apropos the xorg log, if the synaptics module can't find the device then it won't work, I would assume :) Can you provide the logs of what packages you upgraded that brought about this failure? I'm thinking maybe this points to a hal problem, perhaps (but know nothing about hal...). A
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