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antis

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From: sweden

Registered: 2007-05-18

Posts: 108

[solved] Synaptics TouchPad changing input# ??

The other day the touchpad of my Acer Aspire One started acting weird.
Every now and then it doesn't work on boot and after some investigation I saw that the touchpad input number in "/proc/bus/input/devices" doesn't seem to be consistent.

For some reason it changes from being input8 to input9 (also saw it as input7 once) and this causes the hal hotplugging to fail as I have it listed as input8 in "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi".

Changing this file to the appropriate number, restarting hal and X makes it work again.
The touchpad has been working without problem up till now and I really don't know what I did to cause the touchpad acting up like this.

Is there anything I can do to stop it from changing input-number? Or can I do something else to fix this very anoying issue?

Many thanks.

Last edited by antis (2008-12-29 22:39:11)

sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: [solved] Synaptics TouchPad changing input# ??

use the symbolic link /dev/input/by-path/device-id in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file.

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antis

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From: sweden

Registered: 2007-05-18

Posts: 108

Re: [solved] Synaptics TouchPad changing input# ??

use the symbolic link /dev/input/by-path/device-id in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file.

That sounds like a real good suggestion. I'll give it a go and I'm sure it will work.
Thanks alot!