Comments on: GSynaptics touchpad on Fedora 10 + HAL

By: fahrul

fahrul — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:53:14 +0000

thanks for trick it works smoothly, finally i know how to set my presario touchpad & 2 finger tap

fahrul

By: stan

stan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:12:53 +0000

I tried this creating a new file via Pingou’s post. I have no xorg.conf in my system, Fedora 11 ppc on an iBook G4. I still get the message from gsynaptics to set shmconfig to “yes”. I also tried lashal and my touchpad was not listed. A very long list and very cumbersome compared to the old method.
Thanks for your thourghness . I only wish it would work. Typing is almost impossible with the over-itchy touchpad on the mac.
Stan

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:19:23 +0000

Not for me. The latest upgrade for F10 caused my SHMconfig entry in HAL to suddenly stop working. I am hoping that the above will fix the problem.

By: Guil

Guil — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:35:23 +0000

It looks like later versions of gsynaptics no longer require the SHM settings in X.

By: MatisseGroening

MatisseGroening — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:08:02 +0000

This does not work at all. BSD needs a little time so Ihave to waste my time with this Shuttleworth Bill Gates destroying Linux. I hate HTML. It is the most stupid thing ever created. You write and write and have 2 words on the screen.

SuSE 11.1 still has xorg.conf and there is no problem and no editing of files in subsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsudireccstories. I still cannot start GSynaptics. This written above is s…. . It causes an error of bad style in prgramming. Both of the methods.

Goodbye Linux.

By: Mumblyjoe

Mumblyjoe — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:29 +0000

It would indeed be simple if you could turn it off in the BIOS. Unfortunately that didn’t occur to Dell.

In the spew from lshal, there’s a line that says “info.product = ‘ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint’ (string)”. I assume that means the thing is an Alps. The x11 driver appears to be ‘evdev’. Guess I’ll go ask about it on the Fedora forum…

HAL’s features like great, but it’s configuration makes me pine for the simplicity of Selinux.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:02:49 +0000

Simply in the BIOS

By: Mumblyjoe

Mumblyjoe — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:58:14 +0000

So, how does one turn off the G** D*** touchpad entirely? I hate it and want it dead, but HAL’s getting in my way…

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:20:38 +0000

With the annoucement of 1.0.0 of the synaptics driver it looks like it doesn’t actually need the SHM anymore anyway
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-February/043170.html

By: oron

oron — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:06:28 +0000

Even if this option should not be enabled by default,
adding the fdi fragment to hal with a default setting
of ‘false’ would help.

This way, it is “secure by default” but make it easy
for interested people to override.

Maybe also add a comment in the fdi file about
the security implications which point to the man
page for further details.