Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?
On 27 April 2010 06:45, Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 00:29 -0500, francis southern wrote:
>> On 14 April 2010 17:09, Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>> >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up
>> >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to
>> >> udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that
>> >> topic). Now, udev stopped working? Did I miss any change to xorg
>> >> behaviour? I'm using the latest xorg and kdm/kde on testing.
>> >
>> > I heard that it's back to xorg.conf again :)
>>
>> Oh dear Lord, I thought this was a joke....
>> For the record, I fixed my touchpad by adding it to Xorg.
Sorry, I sent this late last night, of course I meant to say "by
adding an entry to my xorg.conf file" or something. :)
>
> No, it was not a joke. I talked with Julien Cristeau the other day on
> IRC, because I thought that there are too many ways how Xorg can be
> configured these days (HAL, udev, xinput, gppointing-device-settings,
> xorg.conf, ..).
>
There really are, this is very confusing for mere mortals like me, and
there appears to be a lack of up-to-date information.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge could update:
http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad
As far as I can tell I'm using Xorg 7.6 with Squeeze, which there is
no mention of.
> Autoconfiguration of Xorg will be handled with udev by default starting
> with xorg-server 1.8 and user configuration should go to xorg.conf and
> he planned to upload a new package to sid soon.
Thanks for your help.
> --
> .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de>
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