Alberto <virtual_alby@tin.it> wrote:
> yes the touchpad works using /dev/mice (/dev/psaux is only a symlink)

What have you done to your Slackware 10.2 installation? From your
descriptions it seems as if you have done some modifications. By default
/dev/psaux is a character device with major number 10 and minor number 1
in Slackware 10.2. This is the character device used to talk to a PS/2
mouse.

> but synaptics driver needs the event* (for example event1) interface for
> working properly. If I create this device with mknod I have no problems
> and the touchpad works fine.
> But why doesn't udev do it for me during the boot? With dmesg I can see
> that the kernel correctly recognizes my touchpad during the boot but
> udev doesn't create any device under /dev/input ...

If I understand things right I think that the devices in /dev/input are
only used for things connected to USB. There is some information about
/dev/input in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/input/input.txt

regards Henrik
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