Hi

I recently upgraded installed ubuntu on my laptop and now the game does not recognise the touchpad (no mouse pointer in game). It works fine in gnome (and the rest of X).
If i plug in an external mouse the game recognises it.

I think the problem is, that I reconfigured the touchpad in the xorg.conf and it does not get a ...-event-mouse file in /dev/input/by-id. When I plug in the external mouse such a file is created and it recognises the external mouse (but still not the toucpad). Plugging in two external mice and multi-mouse also works (but still no touchpad).

So my question is how do I get my system to create a event-device file for my touchpad.
Here are the relevant sections of my current xorg.conf

<br />Section "ServerLayout"<br />  Identifier  "Default Layout"<br />  Screen      "Default Screen"<br />  InputDevice  "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"<br />  InputDevice  "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"<br />  Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"<br />EndSection<br /><br />...<br /><br />Section "InputDevice"<br /> Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"<br /> Driver      "synaptics"<br /> Option     "CorePointer"<br /> Option      "Protocol" "auto"<br /> Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br /> Option      "MinSpeed" "0.4"<br /> Option      "MaxSpeed" "0.85"<br /> Option      "AccelFactor" "0.01"<br />EndSection<br />
This is the log file without any external mice pluged in.
<br />[t=0.00] Loading persistent data...<br />[t=0.00] Locale en_US.UTF-8 matched to language en.<br />[t=0.00] Primary language: en<br />[t=0.00] Created 1024x600 (32 bpp) graphics surface.<br />[t=0.00] Created virtual viewport of size 1024(+0)x600(+0)<br />[t=0.00] Using audio driver: pulse<br />[t=0.00] Connected 2 mouse devices.<br />[t=0.00] resized from 800x600 to 1024x600<br />[t=0.00] loading game (version 1.40linux)...<br />[t=0.52] could not load image "res/images/flags/xx"<br />[t=2.92] Game paused...<br />[t=2.92] FileOpen("res/levels/MapWorldView/newmail.anim.binltl", 17, 0xaf020f54) failed!<br />[t=2.92] FileOpen("res/levels/MapWorldView/MapWorldView/rot_1rps.anim.binltl", 17, 0xaf020f54) failed!<br />[t=2.92] Game resumed after 1.258 seconds<br />[t=5.00] fps=49.8 ups=50.0<br />[t=6.28] loading game complete.<br />[t=6.28] FileOpen("res/levels/IslandUi/newmail.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfd70b74) failed!<br />[t=6.31] STATE TRANSITION: INIT --> WORLD (after 6 sec)<br />[t=10.00] fps=35.4 ups=49.6<br />[t=15.00] fps=29.8 ups=50.0<br />[t=16.41] TotalRunningTime = 19 seconds<br />[t=16.41] Saving persistent data...<br />[t=16.41] ----- destroying scene factory: -----<br />[t=16.41] -------------------------------------<br />[t=16.41] ----- destroying movie factory: -----<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_out' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'levelFadeOut' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_in' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_in' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_main' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_out' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_flipin' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_flipout' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_out' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_in' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_flipin' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_flipout' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_out' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_in' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_1_in' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_2_fillwait' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_2.5_statsin' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_3_handleup' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_4_waitclick' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_5_handlepull' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_6_travel' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'eol_7_islandin' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie '2dboyLogo' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'MomTextSwap_displayloop' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41]        releasing movie 'MomTextSwap_swap' refcount=1<br />[t=16.41] -------------------------------------<br />[t=16.41] InhibitGnomeScreensaver destructor: killing child process 7837...<br />

any help is appreciated.

Hi RGanB,

Did you customize you configuration (in $HOME/.WorldOfGoo/config.txt or globally in /opt/WorldOfGoo/properties/config.txt)?  If so, could you try reseting everything to the default settings, in particular the manymouse option which should be false by default because it is known to be buggy. ;)

I customized the file lokally (ie. ut a copy in ~/.WorlOfGoo).
I removed the customized config file. The touchpad is recognized. Thx for the tip probably should have thought of this myself  ::)

greets
rgb

ps
for an unsurpoted extra the multi mouse feature is pretty awesome!