Workaround for Ksynaptics. (Was preventing people from making a mistake)
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 9 04:44:52 UTC 2008
On Monday 08 December 2008, Tim wrote:
>On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 13:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> And then the point is moot anyway cuz there is not sufficient
>> instructions, even in the man page, to properly set this 'SHMconfig'
>> option in the xorg.conf.
>
>Yes, that was my original complaint, too. Though, by now, I'd forgotten
>which package it was that lacking that crucial info, having gone through
>about three different things related to controlling the touchpad.
>
>An example xorg.conf file, notice my ### comments:
>
>Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
>### above line had to be added to enable controlling the touchpad
>EndSection
>
>Section "Files"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>EndSection
>
>Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AIGLX" "on"
>EndSection
>
>Section "InputDevice"
># keyboard added by rhpxl
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>EndSection
>
>Section "InputDevice"
>### This section was added to control the touchpad
>### see
> http://satyajitranjeev.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/fedora-9-and-touchpads/ ###
> see http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=200840
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "SHMConfig" "true"
>### the above option for letting SHMConfig play with settings
> Option "TapButton1" "0"
> Option "TapButton2" "0"
> Option "TapButton3" "0"
> #Option "TouchpadOff" "2"
> Option "ClickFinger1" "0"
> Option "ClickFinger2" "0"
> Option "ClickFinger3" "0"
> Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
> Option "MaxTapMove" "0"
> Option "PalmDetect" "on"
> Option "FastTaps" "off"
>### various options being tried out here in this EXPERIMENT, you do not want
> all of them EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> Option "NoLogo"
> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
>EndSection
>
Printed and stuffed in with the lappy for the next time I have to use it.
Thanks Tim.
--
Cheers, Gene
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