synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

[Scott]

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.
In the synaptics touchpad wiki entry it mentions you no longer need to 
enable SHMConfig in Intrepid 8.10.  But this is not true as the programs 
are still not working.  It mentions doing syndaemon -d -t and it should 
turn off your touchpad for 2 seconds while typing.  I tried doing 
syndaemon -d -t -i 100 and it seems to be half working.  Sometimes it 
does not click when tapped.  Personally, I am trying to diable the 
tapping altogether, so, even if it did work it would only help me a bit.


-- 
Your friend,
Scott
http://sgaming.org

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