WSJ: Mossberg takes the Linux bait and snarls ....
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Thu Sep 13 18:57:42 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On 9/13/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>>>> I agree 100% with one of his beefs. Laptop touchpad sensitivity. When I'm
>>> Name : gsynaptics Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> There's a ksynaptics as well for kde. But, you have to meddle in
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get it to work. Add the following to the Section
>> "InputDevice" that has Driver "synaptics" and restart X:
>>
>> Option "SHMConfig" "on"
>>
>
> I have a Dell 1420N (came with Ubuntu), and this didn't work for me
> when I tried it before. Will give it another go later, because this
> touchpad is the worst offender I've seen for sensitivity.
Might be worth reviewing your dmesg, there are other kinds of touchpad
than synaptics (ALPS for one). I get something like this:
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x2580b1, caps: 0xa04793/0x300000
Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
There is some bad or outdated advice out there in Google about the
"SHMConfig" line though, wrong capitalization or something else wrong
with the first advice I found when I tried to get it working. That one
is pasted from my working config.
-Andy
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