Am Montag, den 26.02.2007, 07:00 -0800 schrieb Rafael Espíndola: > I am trying to make the synaptics touchpad work on fedora. I am > following the instructions on > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Apple_MacBook/ > > The first problem is that some modules (mousedev, usbhid and evdev) > are compiled builtin. Why?. I compiled a custom kernel with them as > modules. Works for me with the stock Fedora kernels on my PowerBook. There's no need for fiddling around with /etc/modprobe.conf. Is your touchpad working without synaptics, or more specifically is the appletouch module getting loaded? > Unfortunately, X still can't find the synaptics: > > Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 > (EE) Synaptics Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device > (EE) Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics Touchpad" Do you have chosen the right device? Here are the relevant portions of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "ServerLayout" ... InputDevice "Mouse0" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" ... EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" ... EndSection HTH, Frank -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
