Comment 23 for bug 374459

> > When the touchpad works,you should get the events as you use it.
> I'm afraid not. I found out that my touchpad uses event9. But I get an error
> just when the events should be comming.

Oh sorry. I forgot that synaptics grabs the device. You need to VT switch
away and then run evtest from the tty. While X is running you'll get the
device information but not the events.