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From: Martin Herrman <martin@...>
Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:55:36 +0200
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Mansour Al Akeel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mansour.alakeel@...">mansour.alakeel@...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all:</blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
today I did &quot;emerge --update --newuse --deep world&quot; in order to get the latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but after many attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working. I have xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0 ,  I am not using hal, and I would like not to. On the other hand, when I do<br>

<br>
mansour@localhost ~ $ syndaemon<br>
Can&#39;t access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t understand why it reports that SHMConfig is disabled ! it&#39;s enabled in my xorg.conf . Here&#39;s my xorg.conf .</blockquote><div><br>I had some problems after the upgrade as well, but eventually noticed that you have to rebuild the input-devices. So maybe &#39;emerge xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0&#39; might solve this.<br>
 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<br>
Section &quot;ServerLayout&quot;<br>
       Identifier     &quot;X.org Configured&quot;<br>
       Screen      0  &quot;Screen0&quot; 0 0<br>
       InputDevice    &quot;Mouse0&quot; &quot;CorePointer&quot;<br>
       InputDevice     &quot;Synaptics Touchpad&quot;  &quot;CorePointer&quot;<br>
       InputDevice    &quot;Keyboard0&quot; &quot;CoreKeyboard&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
Section &quot;Files&quot;<br>
       ModulePath   &quot;/usr/lib64/xorg/modules&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/misc/&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/TTF/&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/OTF&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/Type1/&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/&quot;<br>
       FontPath     &quot;/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
Section &quot;Module&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;extmod&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;record&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;dbe&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;xtrap&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;dri&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;glx&quot;<br>
       Load  &quot;wfb&quot;<br>
EndSection</blockquote><div><br>You can remove (or comment) the module lines, Xorg will load them automatically. <br><br>HTH,<br><br>Martin<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>
Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>
       Identifier  &quot;Keyboard0&quot;<br>
       Driver      &quot;kbd&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>
       Identifier  &quot;Mouse0&quot;<br>
       Driver      &quot;mouse&quot;<br>
       Option      &quot;Protocol&quot; &quot;auto&quot;<br>
       Option      &quot;Device&quot; &quot;/dev/input/mice&quot;<br>
       Option      &quot;ZAxisMapping&quot; &quot;4 5 6 7&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section &quot;InputDevice&quot;<br>
   Identifier     &quot;Synaptics Touchpad&quot;<br>
   Driver         &quot;synaptics&quot;<br>
   Option         &quot;Protocol&quot; &quot;auto-dev&quot;<br>
  Option         &quot;Device&quot; &quot;/dev/input/eventX&quot;<br>
   Option         &quot;SHMConfig&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
   Option      &quot;SendCoreEvents&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section &quot;Monitor&quot;<br>
       Identifier   &quot;Monitor0&quot;<br>
       VendorName   &quot;Monitor Vendor&quot;<br>
       ModelName    &quot;Monitor Model&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section &quot;Device&quot;<br>
       ### Available Driver options are:-<br>
       ### Values: &lt;i&gt;: integer, &lt;f&gt;: float, &lt;bool&gt;: &quot;True&quot;/&quot;False&quot;,<br>
       ### &lt;string&gt;: &quot;String&quot;, &lt;freq&gt;: &quot;&lt;f&gt; Hz/kHz/MHz&quot;<br>
       ### [arg]: arg optional<br>
       #Option     &quot;SWcursor&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;HWcursor&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;NoAccel&quot;                   # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;ShadowFB&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;UseFBDev&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;Rotate&quot;                    # [&lt;str&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;VideoKey&quot;                  # &lt;i&gt;<br>
       #Option     &quot;FlatPanel&quot;                 # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;FPDither&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;CrtcNumber&quot;                # &lt;i&gt;<br>
       #Option     &quot;FPScale&quot;                   # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       #Option     &quot;FPTweak&quot;                   # &lt;i&gt;<br>
       #Option     &quot;DualHead&quot;                  # [&lt;bool&gt;]<br>
       Identifier  &quot;Card0&quot;<br>
       Driver      &quot;nvidia&quot;<br>
       VendorName  &quot;nVidia Corporation&quot;<br>
       BoardName   &quot;C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]&quot;<br>
       BusID       &quot;PCI:0:5:0&quot;<br>
       #Option &quot;NoLogo&quot;        &quot;True&quot;<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section &quot;Screen&quot;<br>
       Identifier &quot;Screen0&quot;<br>
       Device     &quot;Card0&quot;<br>
       Monitor    &quot;Monitor0&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;AddARGBGLXVisuals&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;DisableGLXRootClipping&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;RenderAccel&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;AllowGLXWithComposite&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;backingstore&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       Option          &quot;TripleBuffer&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     1<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     4<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     8<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     15<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     16<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
       SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>
               Viewport   0 0<br>
               Depth     24<br>
       EndSubSection<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>
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