synaptics driver not loaded

Anthony Joseph Seward anthony.seward at ieee.org
Tue Aug 16 20:34:56 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 12:13 -0600, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 12:05, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:50 -0600, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > > How do I knopw for sure the synaptics driver is loaded. I suspect it is
> > > not loading in my xorg.conf file.
> > >
> > > The package is loaded :
> > >
> > > # rpm -qa | grep synaptics
> > > synaptics-0.13.5-5
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > $ rpm -qi synaptics
> >
> > That will tell you about the package. It may not be what you think it
> > is.
> >
> > Paul.
> > --
> > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
> It is the package I expect. However if I change the primary input device (i.e. 
> mouse0) in my xorg.conf file to use the synaptics driver via:
> 
> Driver      "synaptics"
> 
> then the mouse does not work at all however if I use :
> 
> Driver      "mouse"
> 
> then it works. This makes me suspect the synaptics driver is not loaded.
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 

'egrep modules\/input /var/log/Xorg.0.log'

will tell you which input modules are loaded

ajs




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