WSJ: Mossberg takes the Linux bait and snarls ....

[Andrew Parker]

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.