problem with ALPS touchpad (Toshiba Satellite) and Gsynaptics

[udutronik Tronik]

here is my xorg.conf file : please note that the "synaptics" section was
added by myself (so not created by system)

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "SHMConfig""true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "ca(fr)"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    ModelName    "Monitor 1280x1024"
    HorizSync    31.5 - 81.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
    Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection


2008/2/25, Sean Madden <spmadden at gmail.com>:
>
>  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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