Can't enable Tap-To-Click with ALPS touchpad

Hello, I installed Archlinux on my vaio and I am trying to get the ALPS touchpad to work.
I've tried the xorg.conf solution but tap-to-click doesn't work. So I tried using the HAL policy. This almost works, but I have to open gsynaptics tool and enable Tapping. I changed the values of MaxTapMove, MaxTapTime, even deleted them, nothing! The strangest thing is that tapping works at gdm, but it doesn't work after I login. I removed the input device from xorg.conf, nothing changes. If any log is needed please tell me.

Sorry, everything is solved! I haven't enabled tapping from gnome-mouse-properties... My bad..!
Last edited by seth__ (2009-10-23 22:22:23)

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