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NervGaz

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Registered: 2017-03-26

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]Setting touchpad options disables keyboard in X?

Run in to a bit of an odd one here, not really a newbie but I thought I'd drop it here for easy reference if anyone else gets it.
Really can't figure this out. without configuring my touch pad for tap to click etc everything works fine, if i stick the touchpad
config into /etc/xorg.conf.d and restart x I all of a sudden have no keyboard can't find anything in  any log files, but I might
be missing a log so if anyone could point me in the right direction or just tell me how I'm messing it up, i.e. what simple option
I've screwed up It'd be much appreciated. The touchpad config is

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Device"   "/dev/input/event18"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "ClickMethod" "clickfinger"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
    Option "ScrollMethod" "edge"
EndSection

The touchpad configuration works fine, but if it is enabled the keyboard dies. What have I missed?

Last edited by NervGaz (2017-03-29 05:30:03)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,229

Re: [SOLVED]Setting touchpad options disables keyboard in X?

No idea whether that's the cause, but

Option "Device"   "/dev/input/event18"

is begging for trouble.

Use

MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"

instead.
Also inspect the xorg log on whether the device is covered by libinput by default.

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NervGaz

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Registered: 2017-03-26

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]Setting touchpad options disables keyboard in X?

Thanks, that did it, well either that or the fact that I realised that the synaptics drivers were still installed either way it's sorted. Like I said I missed something simple. Although even the wiki did say use the absolute path, maybe I should reread it...