Florian Kulzer schreef: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 23:27:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > [...] > >> Hal is certainly no longer working, see #567389. Yet, udev now also >> stopped working... > > OK, I think I understand a little bit better how this is supposed to be > working now. Try to add your touchpad options to the InputClass section > of the file /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf as a first test. I don't have a directory /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Maybe these changes are still to be migrated to testing? > > There seems to be a new mechanism that allows for multiple such > InputClass sections matching the same device, so that its configuration > can be spread over several files, with each file being able to add > options and to override settings made in previous files. If this works > as advertised then it should be possible to add your customizations in a > separate InputClass section in, say, 99-local.conf and thus make sure > that they are not overwritten when the synaptics driver is upgraded. > That seems to have all the modularity advantages of the earlier hal/udev > methods with the added bonus of the simpler xorg.conf syntax. Seems nice. The problem of the xorg.conf stanza is that it indeed not so modular. > > I am curious to hear if this actually works because I cannot try it > myself. (My up-to-date Sid desktop does not have a touchpad.) I will either wait until the update migrates to testing or get it by hand from sid. I'll keep you informed. Sjoerd
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