Bug 464867

Summary: Synaptics settings in xorg.conf are ignored
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carl Roth <roth>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-synapticsAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Carl Roth 2008-09-30 22:07:12 UTC 
Description of problem:

I have a bunch of custom settings in my xorg.conf that I use to configure the behavior of the trackpad on my T61p.  Ever since I upgrade my system from synaptics --> xorg-x11-drv-synaptics, these settings are ignored.  In particular, the SHMConfig setting is not honored, so I can't use the synclient command.

Is there some other way I need to lay out my xorg.conf file so that this works again?

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xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.0-3.fc9.x86_64

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Comment 1 Carl Roth 2008-09-30 22:09:20 UTC 
Created attachment 318144 [details]
Xorg log file
Comment 2 Carl Roth 2008-09-30 22:10:18 UTC 
Created attachment 318145 [details]
Xorg configuration file

(this used to work with the 'synaptics' package)
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2008-10-01 00:24:11 UTC 
This config file used to work??
You don't actually reference the synaptics device in your ServerLayout, so the server doesn't add it (well, it does, but through the HAL hotplugging mechanism and thus without any special options.). Just add the follwing line to your ServerLayout:

InputDevice "Synaptics"
Comment 4 Carl Roth 2008-10-01 01:03:47 UTC 
Yes, it did work previously.  I had several laptops with synaptics touchpads; I added the InputDevice section to each but did not have to specify it in the ServerLayout section.

In any case, your suggestion worked.  Thank you, and also, thanks to the author of xorg.conf(5).