March 16, 2010

Fedora 9 Synamptics Touchpad Driver

I found that my Synaptics touchpad was not fully functional under Fedora 9. The touchpad worked properly as a pointer but I was unable to use ‘tap to click’.

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A few edits to ./etc/X11/xorg.conf go things working.

Added the following to the ServerLayout Section:

InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"

add a new section:

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

I found the solution here:

http://ankurs.com/2008/05/synaptics-touchpad-in-fedora-9/

along with links to RPM files which also correct the problem of the touchpad not responding to taps when the computer resumes or wakes from sleep mode.

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