On Monday 08 December 2008, Tim wrote: >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 > Printed and stuffed in with the lappy for the next time I have to use it. Thanks Tim. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) [Babe] Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching. -- Tris Speaker, 1921 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines