I used touchpad autoconfiguration by evdev. After upgrade to the latest version, it no more works. Here is the device as found by hal-device 36: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX1_port_logicaldev_input' info.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.x11_driver = 'evdev' (string) info.product = 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX1_port_logicaldev_input' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input6/event6' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX1_port' (string) input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX1_port' (string) info.category = 'input' (string) info.capabilities = { 'input', 'input.mouse' } (string list) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) linux.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.device = '/dev/input/event6' (string) linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event6' (string) input.product = 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' (string) And here is my emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Mobile_AMD_Sempron-tm-_Processor_3400+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/ " LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en bg" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/lisp /usr/local/portage/layman/lisp" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus djvu dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde laptop ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt3-support qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headersident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation php python proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias wifi" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontzcfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en bg" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS And here are the errors from the X.org log file (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input driver matching `evdev' (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input driver matching `evdev' (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input driver matching `evdev' (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: line 3: xconsole: command not found I have no settings, either in xorg.conf or as a .fdi file for the touchpad If I downgrade to version 2.1.3, touchpad works Reproducible: Always
> /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: line 3: xconsole: command not found Did you recompile your X11 drivers? # qlist -I -C x11-drivers | while read p; do emerge -uN $p; emerge $p; done For me evdev-2.2.0 works with SynPS2 (II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.1 (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.0.0 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6" (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472 (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448 (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255 (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 0 (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right middle double triple (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD) (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found
Nope, recompiled everything as you said + xorg-server, but no good. Though downgrading to the older version still makes it work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 262228 ***
