Bug#461760: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Synaptics touchpad completely stops working under gdm, xdm, kdm ... and X (gnome, openbox, kde...)

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:24:38AM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:55:07 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > you reported a problem with the synaptics driver not reporting any
> > events for your touchpad.
> 
> Well, "not detecting the touchpad at all" would have been a better
> description ;)
> 
> > Can you attach the contents of /proc/bus/input/devices to this bug?
> 
> Sure, but I can anticipate that the touchpad isn't listed in that file.

then the Xorg driver has very little to do here and this sounds like a
different bug. (Sorry I never replied to your other bug submission)

...
> I can't make the touchpad working now, even with the versions reported above. I
> suspect it's something udev(?)-related, or, however, with hardware detection. :(

I agree here.
If the touchpad is not listed in /proc/bus/input/devices then is't most
probably kernel related.
Did you notice anything suspicious in your kernel log?

cheers
-- 
mattia
:wq!

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