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auto-configuration does not care about out-of-tree drivers



On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:06:42AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Le mardi 17 juin 2008 01:04:13 Mattia Dongili, vous avez écrit :
> > 
> > I'm not sure how the autoconfig work in recent xorgs but since the
> > synaptics driver is an out of tree driver I suspect xorg simply doesn't
> > know about it.
> > Can you provide your xorg log along with this bug report?
> 
> I can. But as I described in the bugreport, synaptics is simply not loaded.

yes, sorry, I read your reply after I sent my message.

> > > (...)
> > exactly, vertical and horizontal scrolling are enabled by default *iff*
> > the driver is uset for the touchpad. What I would expect from your log
> > is that the synaptics driver is not being used at all.
> >
> > thanks
> 
> That's what I saw too. Look there:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/486524#10
> 
> "synaptics" is _not_ loaded by default in "xorg.conf-less" and "generated 
> xorg.conf" situations. The simple add of a section as the one described in 
> #10 above resolves it all.

@XSF, is there any plan or anything I can do to add autoconf support for
the out-of-tree drivers?

cheers
-- 
mattia
:wq!

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