On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 04:42 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2007, John Bowden wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:08 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > >> John Bowden wrote: > >>> I.m trying to install FC6 onto my new HP510 note book and have run into > >>> a few problems. I will post them as seperate posts as I don't think they > >>> are related. I can't get the Synaptics touch pad to work at all. I'm a > >>> KDE user so I'm having to carry around a usb mouse. On my other FC6 box > >>> I have a "hardware" program in the "administration" section of the > >>> kmenu, which seems to be missing. When I shut the note book down I get a > >>> error message / backtrace from the Synaptics program crashing. This is > >>> the message: > >> *snip* > >>> I had a look into my xorg.conf file and there is an input section for > >>> the keyboard but non for a mouse. Here is my xorg.conf file: > >> > >> Try adding an input device section manually. Do backup your existing > >> xorg.conf before you do so. Below is the input device section from my > >> xorg.conf. > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Synaptics" > >> Driver "synaptics" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > >> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > >> Option "SHMConfig" "true" > >> EndSection > > > > I tried copy and pasting the above input section, but still no joy. > > touch pad is none responsive and I'm still getting an error when I shut > > down the note book. I will write it down next time. The backtrace > > message is still the same. > > When I got to the "control center" - "peripherals" and click on "touch > > pad" I get this error message: > > > > Shared Memory is not accessible. > > Please add the option 'UseShm ''true''' into the touch pad section > > of /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > On clicking ok with the usb mouse, all the options in "touch pad" are > > grayed out. It does tell me its using "libsynaptics 0.14.6a and there is > > no driver installed. > > After updating xorg.conf, did you restart X (log out and back in)? Yep did a reboot, (old windoz habits die hard), also to make sure touchpad was not asleep. The first time X crashed and refused to start and I had to reconfigure, which rewrites the xorg.conf file. > > The reference to "UseShm" is really about the "SHMConfig" option in the > InputDevice section above. > > FWIW, my input section is ideintical to the above, except my SHMConfig > option is set to "on". Tried "on" still no touchpad, but at least x did not crash. > > Also, do you have the synaptics RPM installed? You might also try > installing gsynaptics (for GNOME) or ksynaptics (for KDE), which provides > a GUI touchpad configurator. Down loaded all the "synaptics" stuff with kyum after doing a search for any files that had synaptics in it. I have the ksynaptics applet running, grayed out in the system tray. > > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > After also failing to get my wireless chip working, I realized then that I had no livna repo set up and went and down loaded its repo setup rpm. Unfortunately it does not seem to have worked as kyum can't find a base url for livna. I will check the livna repo settings on my fc6 tower box when I get home as I have not had any problems with kyum doing my updates on that box, ("touch wood")
