problem with fedora 9

[kimo]

Hi all hackers,
i faced a strange problem and hope to find a solution with u;after i installed Fedora 9 on my laptop i can't use the touchpad as left click only use the left button
anyone can help!!!
Thanks in advance...

[BooDy]

i'm facing the same problem in my dell laptop

i never tried to fix it ... coz it helps me sometimes

[ahmed madkour]

I remember that I faced something like that but in Fedora 8, Dell labtops
but the strange thing that the touchpad work very well in the runlevel 3 (using gpm)

[bu3ny]

hi all hackers
i found this solution on the web hoping to help you:

* Only for laptops
* Does not work for fedora 9
* allows you to adjust settings for your touchpad
* to access touchpad preferences from menu system>>preferences>>hardware>>touchpad
* restart will be needed
* screenshot at bottom of this page
* Open a terminal and copy paste below one line at a time pressing enter after each line. (root password will be required)

su -
yum y install gsynaptics
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

* now you need to add this line Option "SHMConfig" "on" to the file that just opened up, see example below to see where to place Option "SHMConfig" "on"
* click save afterwards


* dont forget to restart

* screenshot of touchpad gui below



i hope this will work for you kimoo and 3abdallah
ok salam
فى امان الله

[kimo]

thanks for u all specially bu3ny,i will test ur solution and tell u..

[kimo]

ana 3mlt zay ma2olt we mafesh 7aga gededa bardo we mesh 3aref awsal lil touchpad preferences asln,anyone can help!!!

[kimo]

hi ya shabab ana al7mdlilah 7alet elmoshkela we hia as follow:
after installing gsynaptics package using Yum;
edit ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf by adding the following to the ServerLayout Section:

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InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"

Then
add a new section:

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Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
EndSection

reboot and it will work isA

[h4ck3r]

I just wanted to mention that installing gsynaptic doesn't have anything to do with your solution...

it should work if you just edited the xorg.conf configuration file...

[kimo]

ok ahmed,i already guessed that but i installed it before i know the new xorg.cof configuration
anyway thanks for ur hint..

[bu3ny]

I just wanted to mention that installing gsynaptic doesn't have anything to do with your solution...

it should work if you just edited the xorg.conf configuration file...

hi ahmed and kimo thanx for comments ya shabab

you are right ya ahmed gsynaptics is just an interface to customize the touchpad and the configuration in xorf.conf

i wrote

gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

thanx any way and you are welcome

[BooDy]

ThanQ for the Solution

this may help me someday