Description of problem: In FC6, trying to use "synclient -l" results in the message: Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? I've added Option "SHMConfig" "true" to the "Synaptics" section of xorg.conf, but this doesn't seem to have had any effect. Neither have my other attempts at configuring the Synaptics driver in that file either, actually, so I suspect that's not how to do the configuration with the current Xorg ... gsynaptics and ksynaptics (from Extras) also both complain about the lack of SHMConfig. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): synaptics-0.14.4-8.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "synclient -l" or any of the other synaptics commands Actual results: Complaints about SHMConfig not being enabled Expected results: Successful configuration of the synaptics driver
I'm far from being an expert in synaptics, but apart from Option "SHMConfig" "on" I also have this one in my xorg.conf: Option "UseShm" "true" For me, synclient works.
*** Bug 212753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Still an issue with Fedora 8 ...
This works fine in F9 using Option "SHMConfig" "true". Closing bug, please reopen if you can still reproduce this problem. If so, please attach a xorg log file so we can have a look at whether the driver is getting the right device.