synaptics touchpad not recognized

[Derek Broughton]

Manfred Lotz wrote:

> 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.

It really shouldn't need that anymore, but I don't have gsynaptics so can't 
verify.

> I have this in xorg.conf but because synaptics module
> gets unloaded (no hardware found) SHMConfig isn't active.

xorg.conf isn't the right place for it, anyway, though I'm not sure this can 
be any more useful if the hardware isn't recognized:

$ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
        <!-- Arbitrary options can be passed to the driver using
             the input.x11_options property since xorg-server-1.5. -->
        <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


You might try "sudo modprobe psmouse", but you probably need to unload 
whatever driver is being used, first.
-- 
derek