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From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Cc: mansour.alakeel@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:09:24
Message-Id: 20090412081011.GA4008@mars.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver by Martin Herrman
1 Martin, thank you for the fast reply. I just tried recompiling the
2 drivers under x11-driver/* but still no luck.
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7 On Sun Apr 12,2009 09:55 am, Martin Herrman wrote:
8 > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Mansour Al Akeel
9 > <[1]mansour.alakeel@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 > Hello all:
12 >
13 > Hi,
14 >
15 > today I did "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" in order to get
16 > the latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but
17 > after many attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working. I
18 > have xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0 , I am not using hal, and I would
19 > like not to. On the other hand, when I do
20 > mansour@localhost ~ $ syndaemon
21 > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
22 > I don't understand why it reports that SHMConfig is disabled ! it's
23 > enabled in my xorg.conf . Here's my xorg.conf .
24 >
25 > I had some problems after the upgrade as well, but eventually noticed
26 > that you have to rebuild the input-devices. So maybe 'emerge
27 > xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0' might solve this.
28 >
29 > Section "ServerLayout"
30 > Identifier "X.org Configured"
31 > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
32 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
33 > InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
34 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
35 > EndSection
36 > Section "Files"
37 > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
38 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
39 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
40 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
41 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
42 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
43 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
44 > EndSection
45 > Section "Module"
46 > Load "extmod"
47 > Load "record"
48 > Load "dbe"
49 > Load "xtrap"
50 > Load "dri"
51 > Load "glx"
52 > Load "wfb"
53 > EndSection
54 >
55 > You can remove (or comment) the module lines, Xorg will load them
56 > automatically.
57 > HTH,
58 > Martin
59 >
60 > Section "InputDevice"
61 > Identifier "Keyboard0"
62 > Driver "kbd"
63 > EndSection
64 > Section "InputDevice"
65 > Identifier "Mouse0"
66 > Driver "mouse"
67 > Option "Protocol" "auto"
68 > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
69 > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
70 > EndSection
71 > Section "InputDevice"
72 > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
73 > Driver "synaptics"
74 > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
75 > Option "Device" "/dev/input/eventX"
76 > Option "SHMConfig" "True"
77 > Option "SendCoreEvents" "True"
78 > EndSection
79 > Section "Monitor"
80 > Identifier "Monitor0"
81 > VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
82 > ModelName "Monitor Model"
83 > EndSection
84 > Section "Device"
85 > ### Available Driver options are:-
86 > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
87 > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
88 > ### [arg]: arg optional
89 > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
90 > #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
91 > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
92 > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
93 > #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
94 > #Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
95 > #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
96 > #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
97 > #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
98 > #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
99 > #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
100 > #Option "FPTweak" # <i>
101 > #Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
102 > Identifier "Card0"
103 > Driver "nvidia"
104 > VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
105 > BoardName "C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
106 > BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
107 > #Option "NoLogo" "True"
108 > EndSection
109 > Section "Screen"
110 > Identifier "Screen0"
111 > Device "Card0"
112 > Monitor "Monitor0"
113 > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
114 > Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
115 > Option "RenderAccel" "True"
116 > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
117 > Option "backingstore" "True"
118 > Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
119 > SubSection "Display"
120 > Viewport 0 0
121 > Depth 1
122 > EndSubSection
123 > SubSection "Display"
124 > Viewport 0 0
125 > Depth 4
126 > EndSubSection
127 > SubSection "Display"
128 > Viewport 0 0
129 > Depth 8
130 > EndSubSection
131 > SubSection "Display"
132 > Viewport 0 0
133 > Depth 15
134 > EndSubSection
135 > SubSection "Display"
136 > Viewport 0 0
137 > Depth 16
138 > EndSubSection
139 > SubSection "Display"
140 > Viewport 0 0
141 > Depth 24
142 > EndSubSection
143 > EndSection
144 >
145 > References
146 >
147 > 1. mailto:mansour.alakeel@×××××.com

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