SHMConfig not working in Lenny

[Richard Werst <rbwerst@gmail.com>]

Hi to all;

I wanted to get the "Syndaemon" to work in Lenny, so that my touchpad is
disabled while typing, and for some reason I can't get the SHMConfig to
be acknowledged properly.

It is set to "true" in my xorg.conf file, and it worked in Etch, but now
I get a:

"Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?"

Whenever I try to invoke syndaemon or synclient in a terminal window.

Anyone else reporting issues?

I found one or two posts that mentioned putting "shmconfig.fdi"
into /etc/hal/fdi/policy (an XML document that is supposed to activate
the shared memory area), but even after following their instructions the
results are the same.

Is the procedure different in Debian 5.0?

Thanks

RBW