touchpad acceleration too slow

[ajeetraj]

Hello everyone,

I have Dell Latitude D630 and Intrepid is running on it. My touchpad acceleration is really slow and I tried to google the problem and i came up with an idea to change the touchpad settings.

many people said that I should install gsynaptics to edit the settings of the touchpad. I installed it but when I try to run it, i get the following message:

GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics

Can anyone tell give me a straight forward answer for this problem.

thanks!

[ajeetraj]

This is how my xorg.cofig looks like. I tried to solve the problem but I just don't know how to.

Xorg.config:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection



Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "touchpad"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.09"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.015"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

[LasherHN]

I follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad to get it to work look the part under Enable SHMConfig.

Hope that works.

[ajeetraj]

Thanks a lot! it helped.