[Solved] synaptics trouble

Cew27 · 2009-01-06 19:09:40

hey guys got a dell xps m1330 laptop. installed synaptics package then the gui setup gsynaptics and when i run gsynaptics i get an error telling me to enable shmconfig in xorg, i tried adding this option and it didnt help, here is my xorg. if you could tell me why this happened and how i can fix it/ avaoid this problem again i will be very happy.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Nov  4 14:07:17 PST 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by Cew27 (2009-01-06 23:31:17)

Cew27 · 2009-01-06 19:39:38

also x locks me out when i get to the login screen unles i hit keys repeatedly and move the mouse on boot

Misfit138 · 2009-01-06 19:51:37

Did you look at the synaptics wiki page? It's pretty helpful. There's an inputdevice section you can actually copy and paste into your xorg.conf that will help with most issues and give you a decent framework to start off with.

Cew27 · 2009-01-06 23:11:19

sorted thanks misfit

Misfit138 · 2009-01-06 23:15:33

No problem, but please tell us how you fixed it, and mark your thread as [solved].
Thanks.

Cew27 · 2009-01-06 23:19:52

i simply put
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

in my xorg
but now nm-applet wont start

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#1 2009-01-06 19:09:40

[Solved] synaptics trouble

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Re: [Solved] synaptics trouble

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Re: [Solved] synaptics trouble

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Re: [Solved] synaptics trouble

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