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 -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines