controlling touchpad in hardy?

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> Joel Oliver wrote:
>> A fix I used is to download ksynaptics from the gutsy repo and 
>> install.... It works just fine in hardy after adding the option 
>> shmconfig true to xorg.conf
>>
>> I posted a bug on launchpad - Bug #208802  [hardy] ksynaptics missing 
>> from repositories
>>
>> But I guess nothing will be done until touchfreeze is released.
>>
> How did you do that? the download that is.
> 

I figured it out (how to download that is) and it seems to work, will 
control it more in detail later tonight. But I dont get this? OK it is 
not maintained but seems not to depend on anything that renders it 
unusable so why remove it from Hardy?

Sinclair