synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

[Derek Broughton]

O. Sinclair wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>> Art Alexion wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 10:55:27 am Scott wrote:
>>>> In the synaptics touchpad wiki entry it mentions you no longer need to
>>>> enable SHMConfig in Intrepid 8.10.
>>> Scott, what is the URL for this wiki?  I am using 8.04 and would like to
>>> see
>>> what it says about that.  When I googled, the only wiki was gentoo
>>> hosted.
>>>
>> Its at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad.  It does
>> have some good stuff about 8.04 as well.
>> 
> only problem is that neither q/ or Ksynaptics are in the repos for
> 8.04.1... only gsynaptics is there. the other packages show but you can
> not install as there are no packages. So the wiki is kind of in need of
> updating.

Do you have a touchpad configuration under "System Settings"/"Keyboard &
Mouse"?  I don't know whether I have that _because_ I still have ksynaptics
installed, or whether it's separate.
-- 
derek