I believe that this part of xorg is now ignored because of hotplug. As expected when I removed 'Option "SHMConfig" "on"' and restarted X and hal the synaptics touchpad was functional.
Only 1 error: (WW) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.15.0 (--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event9 (II) Synaptics Touchpad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472 (II) Synaptics Touchpad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9" (**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" (--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Synaptics Touchpad: always reports core events (II) evaluating device (Synaptics Touchpad) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics Touchpad" (type: MOUSE) (--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found (II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Atom 4, CARD32 4, unsigned long 8 (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.15.0 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9" (**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: M$ (WW) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found (II) config/hal: Adding input device Video Bus (II) LoadModule: "evdev" ** Attachment added: "lshal" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17361636/lshal -- [intrepid] [regression] hal and xorg recognize synaptics trackpad as mouse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263662 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
