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synaptics touchpad issues

Hi all,

I'm running Fedora Core 6 with the Gnome desktop on a Dell Inspiron 500m, and I'm having issues with my mouse, which is a Synaptics touchpad. Specifically, if I move it too quickly it does things like unexpectedly moving my browser back to the last page(s) I visited, and/or changing which window is active, and/or doing other annoying things of a similar nature.

I've read that other people have had similar issues that were resolved by using the gsynaptics package, so I downloaded and installed that via repository. However, when I try to use it, I get a message that says:

Quote:

GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics

So my question is, how do I set SHMConfig to true in xorg.conf or XF86Config (whichever would be easiest for a relative n00b such as myself)?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

~mark

Turn off horizontal scrolling. You've managed to turn it on/leave it unconfigured somehow. Most distro's do this for you, but, since it's fedorah... haha, good luck. :)

You have to edit xorg.conf - as you have Fedora and X.org .
It is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and requires root privileges for editing. Find string

Code:

Driver "synaptics"

and add

Code:

Option "SHMConfig" "yes"

before nearest

Code:

EndSection

Thanks, that took care of it!

~mark