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authorPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>2003-12-22 17:05:08 +0100
committerPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>2006-04-09 04:01:33 +0200
commit5756bd418d2435a5d01d0f758079a1edbe4f25e1 (patch)
treee5e086f516f4f01aee3e0ac67bb8afe92c7c6876 /INSTALL
parent6ec5d2603feb6856269bc691e9e2bb91435fd057 (diff)
Included information about the module path for Gentoo 1.4 in
the INSTALL file.
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@@ -24,9 +24,12 @@ Installing
1. Type "make" to build the driver "synaptics_drv.o".
-2. Copy the driver module "synaptics_drv.o" into the XFree module path
-"ex. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/". Running "make install" as root
-will do this for you if you have X installed in /usr/X11R6/.
+2. Copy the driver module "synaptics_drv.o" into the XFree module
+ path. This path is usually "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/", and
+ running "make install" as root will do this for you. Note though
+ that some distributions have a different module path. For example,
+ in Gentoo 1.4 (with XFree86 4.3.0), the correct path is
+ "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers".
3. Load the driver by changig the XFree configuration file through
adding the line 'Load "synaptics"' in the module section.