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? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.0-3.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 318144 [details] Xorg log file
Created attachment 318145 [details] Xorg configuration file (this used to work with the 'synaptics' package)
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"
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).