Bug#486524: auto-configuration does not care about out-of-tree drivers

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:12:10 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:06:42AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> > "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?
> 
Didier, you can get synaptics loaded for your touchpad by adding the
following to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi (the name of the file
doesn't matter):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

We'll get that working automatically at some point.

Cheers,
Julien