problem with ALPS touchpad (Toshiba Satellite) and Gsynaptics

[Sean Madden]

Please send your xorg.conf file.

udutronik Tronik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newbie in the linux world, been trying various distros for 6 
> months and recently switched to Fedora.
> I'm really enjoying this distribution and the community that surrounds 
> it and so far, i've been able to make eveything work perfectly on my 
> toshiba satellite laptop.
>
> Everything but... my touchpad! I want to be able to use it but with 
> tapping disabled.
>
> It is viewed as ALPS Glidepoint device in Fedora's devices
>
> I've not been able to make it happen, I tried:
> - installing gsynaptics, but it wont start, giving me the message : 
> "GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in 
> xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics"
> - I've looked into /etc/X11/xorg.conf but there is no reference to 
> synaptics touchpad
> - i've pasted this sample config lines into xorg.conf with SHMConfig = 
> true with no luck...
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> Option "SHMConfig" "true"
> EndSection
>
> in other distros, all i had to do was edit this xorg.conf... but what 
> about Fedora?
>
> Thanks for your help...
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