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st0ne2thedge

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Registered: 2010-07-03

Posts: 26

[SOLVED]Synaptics touchpad no results

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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)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED]Synaptics touchpad no results

Can you verify that you have installed xf86-input-synaptics ?

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ApotheoZ

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Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED]Synaptics touchpad no results

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.

st0ne2thedge

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Registered: 2010-07-03

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED]Synaptics touchpad no results

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

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED]Synaptics touchpad no results

please mark the thread as solved, by editing the first post and prefixing the Subject line with [SOLVED]

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