Touchpad and SHMConfig

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bREAk
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Joined: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:18 pm

Touchpad and SHMConfig

Post by bREAk »

Hello forum!

I've been struggling with the following for several hours and now I finally resort to asking here.

I'm trying to make some settings to my synaptics touchpad on an old Comapq Armeda laptop. I'm running Debian with LXDE.
Which ever approach I choose it seems I need to enable SHMConfig. From what I've read all over the internet I have to manually enable it in either xorg.conf or in XF86Config.
The xorg.conf file came out blank after installation and I can't seem to find a XF86Config file (although the "Find Files" doesn't seem to find anything!).
I've tried to add:

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Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
            Driver "synaptics"
            Option "SHMConfig"    "true"
EndSection
without result. Then I added:

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Option "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
which didn't do any difference. Finally I added:

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Section "ServerLayout"
            InputDevice "touchpad"   "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
Something tells me that the xorg.conf file has become obsolete since it was all empty after install, but I have nothing else to go by.

Cheers,
bREAk
bREAk
Posts: 3
Joined: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:18 pm

Re: Touchpad and SHMConfig

Post by bREAk »

Obviously, I've missed to load the driver in the module section:

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Section "Module"
            Load "synaptics"
EndSection

:roll:

Now I wonder if there's a way to configure the size of the scroll zones?
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