synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

[O. Sinclair]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 1:45:46 pm Gordon Schulz wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:39, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 9:34:14 am Gordon Schulz wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:09, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
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>>>> Does 'synclient -l' reflect the changes you made in xorg.conf?
>>> No. "Can't access shared memory area.  Is SHMConfig diabled?"
>> That's weird... Maybe try changing the "true" in SHMConfig to "on" in
>> your xorg.conf.
> 
> Tried that as well.  No good.
> 
here is my full xorg.conf, running on 8.04.1 and Dell Inspiron 1420. 
Though I have a nagging feeling that the shmconfig does nothing (am not 
using K/Gsynaptics and not Touchfreeze) and that I did something else. 
Sorry but it was a while ago i tampered with this:

code:
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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"se"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
	Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
	Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
# added to disable tapping, use buttons instead
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection