FC3 and evdev driver
Kevin Freeman
kfreem02 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 10 22:05:51 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:57 -0500, Frank wrote:
> In tryping to get my Synaptics touchpad working I notice the following
> statement at
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html#TroubleShoot :
>
>
> How do I use this driver with Linux kernel 2.6.x?
>
> You need to have the "evdev" driver loaded or compiled into the
> kernel (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV). Set the "Protocol" parameter in the X
> configuration file to "auto-dev". Also, if you set the "Device"
> parameter to "/dev/psaux", the same X configuration file should work
> for a 2.4.x kernel.
>
>
> Is this true?
>
> lsmod | grep evdev displays nothing. Does this mean that I am not
> running this driver? Do I need to recompile the kernel to get it? (I
> can't believe that people are recompiling to kernel to get this common
> type of touchpad working).
>
> Frank.
>
Cross your fingers and try (as root): yum install synaptics. I have
used this on my laptop for the past few months. You probably need to
log out of X and, as root, init 1, followed by init 5, to load module.
I don't recall making any changes to xorg.conf to get the new touchpad
features to work.
Kevin Freeman
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