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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:09:49 +0300
From:      Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
To:        Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, nork@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Synaptics
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Giulio, good day.

Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:50:21PM +0100, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>>> --------------
>>> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
>>> Synaptics_Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>>> Synaptics_Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified.
>>> Synaptics driver unable to open device
>>>     
>> 
>> And what if you'll specify
>> -----
>>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psm0"
>>         Option          "Protocol"              "psm"
>> -----
>> in the xorg.conf?  I assume that you have your synaptics touchpad
>> as the /dev/psm0.
>>   
> 
> Yes, I have the touchpad as /dev/psm0

But what protocol is selected?  From your Xorg log I assume that
it is either "event", "auto-dev" or not set at all.

> Unfortunately those settings are already specified in /e tc/X11/xorg.conf 
> in the
> section "InputDevice" for the touchpad.
> 
> If you look in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/synaptics/pkg-message it's all 
> already there

Yes, but I am not sure what you have in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry.
Could you please show your configuration?

Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> Anyway I'm not sure this is the right way to do thinks. I'd dearly like to 
> listen from
> the maintainer, maybe it can shed some light on the /dev/input/event 
> issue...

Though I am not maintainer, but jugding from the source, your Synaptics
driver tries to use the "event" protocol instead of "psm".
-- 
Eygene



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