Re: Cannot configure Synaptics touchpad - Requires SHMConfig
I think you have to add the following to your xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Server Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "Core Keyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "Core Pointer"
EndSection
At least, for me I had to add this before it would work. Then you can
run gsynaptics and configure it
Sebastian Canagaratna
In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 20081119205705.1362765dxt5j8mck@mail.kalinowski.com.br>
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:57:05PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use gsynaptics to configure the touchpad in an Acer
> 6292 laptop. However, it says it needs the SHMConfig option to be
> enabled. There are problems also with synclient, for example:
>
> # synclient -h
> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
>
> However, I did enable that option. Here's my full xorg.conf file:
>
> --------
> # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
> # values from the debconf database.
> #
> # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
> # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
> #
> # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
> # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
> # package.
> #
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
> # again, run the following command:
> # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
> Option "XkbLayout" "br"
> Option "XkbVariant" "abnt2"
> EndSection
>
> #Section "InputDevice"
> # Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> # Driver "mouse"
> #EndSection
>
> 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
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
> ----------
>
> I've also created a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi, following
> instructions I fould somewhere in the net with these contents:
>
> -----------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> -----------
>
> However, even after several reboots, I still cannot run the programs to
> configure the touchpad.
>
> My kernel is
> Linux vingilot 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 15:18:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> and my xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package is 0.14.7~git20070706-3.
>
> --
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
> eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
>
>
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