synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

Gordon Schulz gordon.schulz at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 14:34:54 UTC 2008


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:25, Scott <slewin at bmts.com> wrote:

> > Does 'synclient -l' reflect the changes you made in xorg.conf?
> I know you where asking Art that, but I tried doing the instructions 
> from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad and when I did 
> that I got, "Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?"
For clients such as synclient to function you need

Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"

in your xorg.conf's Synaptics section - which enables shared memory
access.
-- 
Gordon.




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