Installing Touchpad in Fiesty Fawn

[Donald]

Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:00:43 -0700 From: Brian Beattie 
<beattie at beattie-home.net> Subject: Re: Installing Touchpad in Feisty 
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<1181530843.6856.44.camel at kokopelli> Content-Type: text/plain On Sun, 
2007-06-10 at 22:32 -0400, 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
>>         
>> 
>> 
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You need to add a line to the Synaptics section in x.org,  Mine looks
like the following:
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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
EndSection

Many thanks for the help. My touchpad seem to be behaving itself after I made a small adjustment.
And thanks to Jeremy Teale for his promt response.
Nice to be in good, helpful company