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salixman

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 16

GNOME and Synaptics issues

I've been having issues with synaptic and GNOME recently. Recently (as in earlier today) when I would boot into gnome my touchpad on my laptop wouldn't work. I started fiddling around with my xorg configs and it seems that getting rid of the file (while making a backup, of course) 10-synaptics.conf and allowing 10-evdev.conf and the evdev driver to control the touchpad (as opposed to the synaptics driver) allows the touchpad to work. However, I'm missing a lot of nice features like scrolling and tapping with evdev. I also tried using gsynaptics according to the wiki, but that didn't help either. In a way, I have a two part question.

1) For the time being, can I set up evdev with tapping and vertical scrolling?

2) Can I fix my synaptics driver?

Thanks for any help.

nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,230

Re: GNOME and Synaptics issues

just set its in mouse gnome preferences

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