synaptics driver not loaded

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:36, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
[...]
>
>
> Thanks for the info..
>
> Here's what I find now.
> If I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log after a fresh re-boot I see the following in
> relation to the synaptics driver:
>
> The driver gets loaded:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
> (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>        compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
>        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
>        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
>
> Then the  driver fails to find a valid device??
>
> (**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> (**) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
> (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.13.5
> Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 5 nodes)
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
> (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
> (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
> (**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
> (**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard
>
>
> I've run the hardware browser and the system shows both the internal mouse
> (the touchpad) and the external usb mouse as /dev/input/mice
>
> Any ideas???

Not really.  For me, it's always Just Worked(tm) on my Thinkpad with FC4. 
Check /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages and make sure the kernel finds
the Synaptics device.  If it doesn't, then the xorg driver probably won't 
either.

My synaptics driver is synaptics-0.14.0-2, which ships with FC4.  I think 
you ought to be able to rebuild it and use it with FC3.  It may detect 
more devices.

Another post suggested reconfiguring your X with no external mouse.


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 		Matthew Saltzman

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