FS#3633 - Synaptics broken after kernel upgrade

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 18 December 2005, 08:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The kernel26 2.6.14.4-2 completely takes out Synaptics. My Synaptics driver is not loaded anymore, none of its stuff are working anymore (for example speed, vertical scrolling etc)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 19 December 2005, 06:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 18 December 2005, 08:39 GMT
Apparently, after the recent kernel upgrade, if you use hwdetect Synaptics works. If you use Hotplug, it doesn't.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 18 December 2005, 08:56 GMT
you need to load evdev, else it does not work, hwdetect does load evdev, i'm not sure about hotplug doing this.

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