Bug#528709: Problem Solved

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:28:13AM -0400, Bob Hauck wrote:
> I finally figured out what the problem was.  If I completely remove

Hello!

> any reference to synaptics from my xorg.conf then synclient and
> syndaemon work as documented.  Apparently it is not a good idea to
> have configuration done both by xorg.conf and by HAL.

exactly, You are configuring 2 different devices from Xorg's point of
view.

> I had the same setup in xorg.conf for several years, but apparently
> the latest version of the synaptics driver prefers to be configured
> via HAL.  This is not well-documented in the README or NEWS files.
> There is a brief mention of auto-configuration and HAL in
> README.Debian but then it goes on to describe manual configuration
> using xorg.conf, which is seemingly not the proper method now.

well, I wouldn't say "proper".
Anyway, can you suggest a change to the README or NEWS file that would
help clearing this out?

Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!