Comments on: 1 mouse, 2 mouse, IT WORKS!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:59:04 +0000

Wow ! it works .. but you have to take care of the quotation marks! I copied it from you blog-post and somehow it was not “the real”quotation marks and udev didn’t understand the config. also logging does not work as long as the /tmp/udev_test.log file is not existing .. you can use things like “logger mouse $ACTION” for easier debugging…

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By: Thomas Olsen

Thomas Olsen — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:24:12 +0000

Better late than never

Thanks for the reply. I tried it but for some reason my xorg.conf gets overwritten whenever I reboot or log in and out again. Don’t think I’ve experienced that before.

Wonder if this is a new Ubuntu thingy?

By: nixternal

nixternal — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:45:18 +0000

OOOH, I forgot about this! Add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Option “SHMConfig” “on

So it should look like this:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
EndSection

By: Thomas Olsen

Thomas Olsen — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:38:56 +0000

Hi Richard

Just what I needed – except that it doesn’t work for me. When I try to run:

sudo synclient TouchpadOff=0

I get an error saying:

Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

This is on a ThankPad T42 – so I guess it’s a Synaptic pad?

Do u have any idea whats wrong?