Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

[Martin Herrman]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@×××××.com
> wrote:

> Hello all:


Hi,


> today I did "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" 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
>
> mansour@localhost ~ $ syndaemon
> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
>
> I don't understand why it reports that SHMConfig is disabled ! it's enabled
> in my xorg.conf . Here's my xorg.conf .


I had some problems after the upgrade as well, but eventually noticed that
you have to rebuild the input-devices. So maybe 'emerge
xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0' might solve this.


>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>       Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>       InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"  "CorePointer"
>       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> Section "Files"
>       ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
> Section "Module"
>       Load  "extmod"
>       Load  "record"
>       Load  "dbe"
>       Load  "xtrap"
>       Load  "dri"
>       Load  "glx"
>       Load  "wfb"
> EndSection


You can remove (or comment) the module lines, Xorg will load them
automatically.

HTH,

Martin


>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>       Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier  "Mouse0"
>       Driver      "mouse"
>       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
>   Driver         "synaptics"
>   Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>  Option         "Device" "/dev/input/eventX"
>   Option         "SHMConfig" "True"
>   Option      "SendCoreEvents" "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier   "Monitor0"
>       VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>       ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>       ### Available Driver options are:-
>       ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>       ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>       ### [arg]: arg optional
>       #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
>       #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
>       #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
>       #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
>       #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
>       #Option     "DualHead"                  # [<bool>]
>       Identifier  "Card0"
>       Driver      "nvidia"
>       VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>       BoardName   "C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
>       BusID       "PCI:0:5:0"
>       #Option "NoLogo"        "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier "Screen0"
>       Device     "Card0"
>       Monitor    "Monitor0"
>       Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>       Option          "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
>       Option          "RenderAccel" "True"
>       Option          "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
>       Option          "backingstore" "True"
>       Option          "TripleBuffer" "True"
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     1
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     4
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     8
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     15
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     16
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     24
>       EndSubSection
> EndSection
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