Installing Touchpad in Feisty Fawn

[Jeremy Teale]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 21:32:58 Donald Metheny wrote:
> Have recently installed Fiesty Fawn on my laptop and am having trouble
>         controlling the touchpad. Saw Touchpad in the repository and
>         figured it would give me more control over the device. When I
>         click on it to run, I get the following message:
>
>         GSynatics couldn't initialize
>         You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XFConfig to
>         use
>         GSynaptics.
>
>         I found xorg.conf but could find no reference to SHMConfig in
>         it. Have not been able to find XFConfig.
>         Would appreciate some help on this so I can hopefully bring my
>         touchpad under control.
>         Thanx

You have to add the SHMConfig reference. Your input device section for 
xorg.conf would look something like this:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
EndSection


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