Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Making the touchpad survive a suspend/resume

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Nick Hoffman wrote:
> hi Ortwin. would you mind being more specific please? there's very 
> little information on " org.x.config.input.add"; googling for it comes 
> up with only 2 results. 

Yeah, I know, documentation sucks. I am not sure either, if that's the 
way to go. But it's an idea. I would like to figure out the details, 
too. Please, anybody who has the time and patience, play around with 
dbus and see what happens.

 > i've followed the instructions on your site

As if that's a guarantee for anything :-) I am just describing my setup 
there. There's always room for improvement.

 > to
> have X use /dev/input/touchpad which is setup as a symlink to the proper 
> input device. however, upon resuming, X is unable to open 
> /dev/input/touchpad , and thus synaptics isn't used:

The question is *why* can it not open the device. If the device node is 
not present, then we must notify X over dbus as soon as the device is 
available. Using dbus-send probably.
If however the device is present but the open fails, I don't know what 
to do.

> 
> nick@wombat:~> grep -i -e synaptics -e touchpad /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail
> (**) Synaptics Touchpad: always reports core events
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics Touchpad" (type: 
> MOUSE)
> Synaptics DeviceInit called
> SynapticsCtrl called.
> Synaptics DeviceOn called
> (--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
> Synaptics DeviceOff called
> Synaptics DeviceOn called
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/touchpad
> (WW) Synaptics Touchpad: cannot open input device
> nick@wombat:~>
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers,
> Nick

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