synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

[O. Sinclair]

Gordon Schulz wrote:
> 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.
I believe this function is disabled in Ubuntu by default (recent 
version) as it is seen as potentially security risk. I can not remember 
where I found that info but I searched quite a lot when Ksynaptics 
disappeared in one update.

Sinclair