Problems with synaptic touch pad.

[matthew byers]

Did you change that setting the error specified in your xorg.conf?

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
kennethadammiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been unable to use scroll for a long time on Ubuntu. I would really
> like to add this feature, but it is proving to be a much more complicated
> process that what I thought it should be.
> I've followed instructions at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/132627 and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#shmconfig
>
> I added the ability to use the vertical scroll on my touchpad, but still,
> having trouble. When I scroll down it works, but scrolling up gives trouble
> (it jumps to the very very bottom of the page). I tried to add the program
> TouchPad from USC, but it fails to initilize with an error report like this:
>
>
> GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
> You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use
> GSynaptics
>
> I went through trying to fix that, but I couldn't get it done.  I really
> don't know where to go.
> I do think I found something significant though: the command "xinput list"
> gives this:
>
>
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
> ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer
> (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse          id=10    [slave  pointer
> (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse                  id=13    [slave  pointer
> (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation            id=14    [slave  pointer
> (2)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
>     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ Sleep Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse          id=9    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ CNF7017                                     id=11    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=12    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>
> If you look, you can see that it is NOT detecting a synaptics touchpad.
>
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