Can't find a touchpad

[arne anka]

> |         Option          "TslibDevice"           "/dev/input/event1"

that's supposed plain "Device" for some time now, not TsDevice anymore

> But for some reason, uninstalling xserver-xorg-input-synaptics solved
> the problem.  I would have expected that the Driver option would take
> precedence over auto-detection, but anyway.

nope. with a recent xorg, autodetection overruns all configuration unless  
specifically told not to.
(which besides other things means, that a lot of hal stuff is usually  
running in the background, eating resources and not doing anything useful.)

thus, whatever you configured was ignored and apparently a greedy synaptic  
and a naive detction routine together made your input disappear.

i removed hal from all runlevels and put
         Option  "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
into ServerFlags, so the manual configuration (still hoping, one day xorg  
will not _depend_ on hal anymore) takes over again.

Section "ServerFlags"
         Option "AIGLX" "off"
         Option  "Xinerama" "Off"
         Option  "AutoAddDevices" "Off" #kill hal
EndSection