[Nix-dev] synaptics touchpad problem in trunk

[Tony White]

2009/6/7 Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/7 Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com>:
>> Hi Lluís,
>> I checked out trunk yesterday, using :
>> $ svn up /etc/nixos/nixos
>> $ svn up /etc/nixos/nixpkgs
>> $ nixos-rebuild switch
>>
>> I'm at nix-0.13pre15614. That's trunk right?
> It's not that important about the nix version, but about the nixos version.
>>
>> You are right about the pkgs.synaptics and pkgs.xorg.synaptics
>> difference, it looks like pkgs.synaptics is being called instead here.
> It's wrong in trunk. Maybe I commited that to modular-nixos.
>>
>> So do I just add pkgs.xorg.synaptics to extraPackages in
>> configuration.nix or am I not using trunk and need to switch to it?
> I finally checked nixos trunk, and there in xserver.nix is:
>    ++ (optional cfg.synaptics.enable ["${xorg.xf86inputsynaptics}"]);
>
> This means the xorg package is taken, and not pkgs.synaptics. I don't
> think you are using the nixos trunk, then. Can't you see that same
> line?
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
>

Hi Lluís,
Is there a quick command to find out the nixos version and how do I
pull trunk please?

I've got the same line :
    ++ (optional cfg.synaptics.enable ["${xorg.xf86inputsynaptics}"]);
in /etc/nixos/nixos/upstart-jobs/xserver.nix

Thanks,
Tony