after emerging xfree 4.3.99.15 found that my laptop build in touchpad was not working. After checking the xfree log found that the synaptics touchpad driver was missing. Check the ebuild and in fact, there is no reference to the driver, which was available on previous xfree ebuilds either stable release or 4.3.99 betas. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Having a computer with xfree installed and synaptics driver configure on XF86Config. 2. emerge /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree-4.3.99.15.ebuild Actual Results: After next reboot the pointing device will be unavailable. Expected Results: The touchpad should work without problem.
This is pasted from the ebuild. This warning prints before the source unpacks. einfo "The Synaptics driver is no longer built within XFree." einfo "To pull it in, set INPUT_DEVICES=\"synaptics\" in make.conf" einfo "or on the command line." Feel free to emerge x11-misc/synaptics, as it isn't built in xfree anymore.