Bug#464662: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Synaptics touchpad not auto-detected on HP 2510p laptop
On Saturday 16 August 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:
> X gets that information from hal on startup, so if a touchpad is
> detected and listed in hal when X starts, it will automatically load
> the synaptics driver to handle it.
OK. Tried it by adding that file manually and restarting hal. Can confirm
that the synaptics driver is loaded automatically after reverting my
changes to the xorg.conf file.
Not sure that I really like things depending on such relatively invisible
"magic", but it does work.
Cheers,
FJP
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