Re: synaptics gone?

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, and synclient was always needed to make it work properly.
> I don't know what changed, or when because I don't reboot it often
> (a few times a year). I'd love to know how to force X to load the synaptics
> driver.

In my experience, trying to force X to load the synaptics driver is a
waste of time, since the kernel driver still doesn't load.  :-(  If
you want to try it anyway, create a file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/force-synaptics.conf with the following contents
and restart X:

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Identifier     "TouchPad"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option        "SHMConfig" "on"
 EndSection


To get this fixed properly, you should file a bug against
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics and let them know autodetecting your touchpad
broke at some point:
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/xorg-x11-drv-synaptics

Include information about your hardware (so they know which one broke
;-).  If you have some old kernels left on your system and can figure
out which one broke it, that would be incredibly helpful to them (and
give you the option to fall back to it until the problem is fixed.)
Otherwise, try and figure out anything that might have changed that
could have possibly broke it (e.g. a yum update to
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics).

-T.C.
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