****Re: life without system-config-display
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Jan 17 20:48:47 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 22:22 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 23:09 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:56:40 -0700
> > Craig White wrote:
> >
> > > One more thing...I set it up with my KVM and finally just booted it
> > > without any of that attached and realized that the built-in track pad
> > > doesn't work at all. I installed ksynaptics, disconnected the USB mouse
> > > and rebooted but it still seems dead to the world in Fedora, not in
> > > Windows. Anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > The trackpad works fine on my Acer Aspire One with F10. In fact, I've never
> > had a "real" mouse on that machine yet.
> ----
> that's not very helpful. I suspect that because my setup has always had
> a USB mouse connected until now, that's why I don't have it.
>
> At least look in /etc/modprobe.conf or do an lsmod and give me a hint
> where the solution is
Sorry, I'm late to this thread. If the question is how to let
ksynaptics/gsynaptics control touchpad features in F10, the answer is to
create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
For where this comes from,
see /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi. Note the
line above containing "SHMConfig"
HTH.
>
> Craig
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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