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From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:47:45
Message-Id: 49E19CD1.80206@gmail.com
1 Hello all:
2 today I did "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" in order to get the
3 latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but after many
4 attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working. I have
5 xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0 , I am not using hal, and I would like not
6 to. On the other hand, when I do
7
8 mansour@localhost ~ $ syndaemon
9 Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
10
11 I don't understand why it reports that SHMConfig is disabled ! it's
12 enabled in my xorg.conf . Here's my xorg.conf .
13
14 Section "ServerLayout"
15 Identifier "X.org Configured"
16 Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
17 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
18 InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
19 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
20 EndSection
21 Section "Files"
22 ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
23 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
24 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
25 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
26 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
27 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
28 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
29 EndSection
30 Section "Module"
31 Load "extmod"
32 Load "record"
33 Load "dbe"
34 Load "xtrap"
35 Load "dri"
36 Load "glx"
37 Load "wfb"
38 EndSection
39
40 Section "InputDevice"
41 Identifier "Keyboard0"
42 Driver "kbd"
43 EndSection
44
45 Section "InputDevice"
46 Identifier "Mouse0"
47 Driver "mouse"
48 Option "Protocol" "auto"
49 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
50 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
51 EndSection
52
53 Section "InputDevice"
54 Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
55 Driver "synaptics"
56 Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
57 Option "Device" "/dev/input/eventX"
58 Option "SHMConfig" "True"
59 Option "SendCoreEvents" "True"
60 EndSection
61
62 Section "Monitor"
63 Identifier "Monitor0"
64 VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
65 ModelName "Monitor Model"
66 EndSection
67
68 Section "Device"
69 ### Available Driver options are:-
70 ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
71 ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
72 ### [arg]: arg optional
73 #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
74 #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
75 #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
76 #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
77 #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
78 #Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
79 #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
80 #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
81 #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
82 #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
83 #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
84 #Option "FPTweak" # <i>
85 #Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
86 Identifier "Card0"
87 Driver "nvidia"
88 VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
89 BoardName "C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
90 BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
91 #Option "NoLogo" "True"
92 EndSection
93
94 Section "Screen"
95 Identifier "Screen0"
96 Device "Card0"
97 Monitor "Monitor0"
98 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
99 Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
100 Option "RenderAccel" "True"
101 Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
102 Option "backingstore" "True"
103 Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
104 SubSection "Display"
105 Viewport 0 0
106 Depth 1
107 EndSubSection
108 SubSection "Display"
109 Viewport 0 0
110 Depth 4
111 EndSubSection
112 SubSection "Display"
113 Viewport 0 0
114 Depth 8
115 EndSubSection
116 SubSection "Display"
117 Viewport 0 0
118 Depth 15
119 EndSubSection
120 SubSection "Display"
121 Viewport 0 0
122 Depth 16
123 EndSubSection
124 SubSection "Display"
125 Viewport 0 0
126 Depth 24
127 EndSubSection
128 EndSection

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver Martin Herrman <martin@×××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de>