Installing Touchpad in Feisty Fawn

[Brian Beattie]

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
>         
> 
> 

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