Ubuntu
xorg-driver-synaptics package

Synaptics touchpad hanging X startup on Acer Ferrari 3200 notebook

Bug #23833 reported by Eric Murphy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg-driver-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
James Blackwell

Bug Description

When I try to boot Ubuntu from Live CD or after install, X hangs at a black
screen. I figured out that commenting out this line allowed X to continue loading:

InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"

This calls the touchpad section that loads the synaptics driver, and it must be
hanging up there.

Ubuntu has had this problem since the beginning. I have not had this problem on
other distros. That's about all I know.

Revision history for this message
Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

please attach a /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a hanging session

Revision history for this message
Eric Murphy (murphye) wrote :

I did a reinstall with breezy final tonight and now things work fine. I still
have to do vga=771 to get the damn installer to work, however.

Marking invalid.

P.S. Breezy is a great step forward.

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