Kwan Lowe wrote:
Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed:
rpm -q synaptics
'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)?
If not, is this laptop connected to the Internet? If so, you can do:
yum -y install synaptics
This will install the synaptics package, though doesn't install the module.
hmmm ... I didn't think of that (along with a few other readers!)
Ok, it's installed ... reboot.
YES!!!! :) :) It at least boots properly! Thaaaaaank you!
Like I mentioned, I'm new-ish to linux. And, I use the gui exclusively. So, it never occured to me to install in runlevel=3. I figured that I'd have to get it to boot somehow, then use Applications > Add/Remove Software. Same with vi - it just occurred to me that I could have easily tried 'man vi'.
The main things you need to verify are the following sections in the xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
One difference from yours - Identifier "Default Layout" Does that matter? Also, I don't have Screen 1 - I guess because I didn't set up multiple screens.
Section "InputDevice"
Same as yours.