I installed the (package masked) xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc. Synaptics doesn't work with this new xorg cause the module path has changed to /usr/lib/xorg/modules instead of /usr/lib/modules. My temporary workaround is: ln -s /usr/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so It would be great if the synaptics ebuild could be slightly adjusted in the future to work with the upcoming xorg "out of the box". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: X server >=7.0.0_rc1 doesn't start, complaining about missing module synaptics. Expected Results: X server should start and touchpad should work within X.
Maybe synaptics should be moved to x11-drivers category
this seems to have been fixed sometime prior anyway. will look into moving to x11-drivers though.
The new path has been implemented in synaptics-0.14.4-r2, but not in synaptics-0.14.3. Perhaps xorg-x11-7.0 could require the former as the minimum version.
(In reply to comment #3) > The new path has been implemented in synaptics-0.14.4-r2, but not in > synaptics-0.14.3. Perhaps xorg-x11-7.0 could require the former as the minimum > version. > Good idea. Done.
