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Hi,
my synaptics touchpad is not responding at all. I'm using hal.
the synaptics package should be installed on my system. After i tried to follow the wiki documentation on how to install the synaptics package and configure it properly i tetsed it in my desktop enviroment, with no results what so ever.
I tested if any input happend with the following command in terminal:
sudo cat /dev/input/mice
No results from my mousepad, my usb mouse did get results.
i'm kind of new to the arch linux system so i haven't been able to solve this problem myself.
Last edited by st0ne2thedge (2010-09-08 20:37:51)
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Can you verify that you have installed xf86-input-synaptics ?
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If it's not hardware problem, this should work.
Firstly, remove hal from your startup daemon and stop xorg.
Then
# /etc/rc.d/hal stop
# pacman -Rs xorg
# pacman -Rs xf86-input-synaptics
# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S xorg
# pacman -S xf86-input-evdev
# pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics
Finally check if you have 10-evdev.conf and 10-synaptics.conf in xorg.conf.d
remove your xorg.conf file
remove the InputClass of your touchpad from 10-evdev.conf
$ startx
If it doesn't work (really ?) I have no idea.
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It seems it was a kernel issue a while ago, after i updated with pacman -syu the problem simply disappeared
thx for the responses though i had forgotten i posted this :s
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There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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