On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:46 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > So what is the plan to allow users to control their touchpads in
> > KDE4.2 ?
>
> Ask the KSynaptics/libsynaptics maintainer (who is the person responsible
> for getting it to work with the current Synaptics driver API). Or the
> synaptics driver maintainer(s) (who are the ones behind the decision to
> disable SHMConfig by default).
To enable SHMConfig, create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi
containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig"
type="string">On</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
<merge key="input.x11_driver"
type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
<merge key="input.x11_driver"
type="string">synaptics</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Then if ksynaptics won't work for you, you can at least use synclient to
set touchpad parameters.
>
> > Have laptop users been totally left out in the cold ? Why is
> > there such extreme insensitivity to this topic ?
> >
> > I can't even turn my touchpad off in F10. Its a huge pain in the butt.
>
> I never bothered disabling my touchpad even if I almost always have a mouse
> plugged into my laptop, so why should I start worrying about it now? I am
> not a maintainer or comaintainer of KSynaptics nor of the synaptics
> drivers, so how is it my fault that KSynaptics doesn't work? File bugs.
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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