WSJ: Mossberg takes the Linux bait and snarls ....
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Thu Sep 13 17:42:16 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> I agree 100% with one of his beefs. Laptop touchpad sensitivity. When I'm
> Name : gsynaptics Relocations: (not relocatable)
There's a ksynaptics as well for kde. But, you have to meddle in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to get it to work. Add the following to the Section
"InputDevice" that has Driver "synaptics" and restart X:
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
I'd agree with Mr Mossberg as well, it ain't quite ready for the
primetime of grannies and so on (unless someone is admin-ing it for
them, in which case it was "ready" a couple of years ago).
But of course on Windows I seem to recall having to sneak miserably
around in the Registry to get things work, entering Hardware Driver Hell
because I plugged a USB device in before I found the driver CD, crashy
video drivers, etc. I think a lot of the jolt at having to meddle with
stuff is just because the stuff to meddle with is different, not that it
is so much more complicated.
-Andy
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