synaptics touchpad not recognized

[Manfred Lotz]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:13:53 -0500
Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:50 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
> > N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
> > P: Phys=
> > S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input3
> > U: Uniq=
> > H: Handlers=mouse0 event3 
> 

I have no idea if this is a problem.


> >From this output, it almost seems that the touchpad is being
> >recognized
> incorrectly. 
> 
> The only recommendation I can think of at the moment would be to check
> Synaptic and make sure you have the packages "gsynaptics" and
> "libsynaptics0" installed.
> 

gsynaptics doesn't initialize because it requires SHMConfig set to true
in xorg.conf. I have this in xorg.conf but because synaptics module
gets unloaded (no hardware found) SHMConfig isn't active.


-- 
Manfred