Synaptics touchpad doesn't work on a mac book pro

[Frank Arnold]

Am Montag, den 26.02.2007, 07:00 -0800 schrieb Rafael Espíndola:
> I am trying to make the synaptics touchpad work on fedora. I am
> following the instructions on
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Apple_MacBook/
> 
> The first problem is that some modules (mousedev, usbhid and evdev)
> are compiled builtin. Why?. I compiled a custom kernel with them as
> modules.

Works for me with the stock Fedora kernels on my PowerBook. There's no
need for fiddling around with /etc/modprobe.conf. Is your touchpad
working without synaptics, or more specifically is the appletouch module
getting loaded?

> Unfortunately, X still can't find the synaptics:
> 
> Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
> (EE) Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
> (EE) Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Touchpad"

Do you have chosen the right device? Here are the relevant portions of
my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
	...
	InputDevice	"Mouse0"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	...
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Mouse0"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"IMPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	...
EndSection

HTH,
Frank