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Re: xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly



On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 15:56:42 David Roguin wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a
>> touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad "on"), but the driver on that
>> section never loads. If I change the MatchIsTouchpad for other Match like
>> the MatchIsPointer the driver gets loaded, but of course it doesn't work
>> properly.
>> 
>> I was wondering what is happening that triggers that kind of behavior. I'm
>> thinking maybe udev is not recognizing properly the tochpad… (i can't
>> think of anything else right now :) ) If udev is guilty, then how can I
>> add a rule to to that?
>> 
>> By the way, I have a macbook pro (8,1) with debian wheezy.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> David
> 
> What happen if you remove/comment out that inputclass section and let udev/xorg 
> work things out by themselves?

It lets evdev driver handles the Pointer, and I have a touchpad as useful as a mouse with only one button.
There's an evdev that catches all the mouse like interfaces, and that's the one handling the touchpad events.

D.
> Thierry
> 


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