A new release of Fedora is out, which means an entirely new fight with hardware for a lot of folks. My struggle from Fedora Core 4 through Fedora Core 5 has been dealing with the synaptics driver for the touchpad on my Toshiba M45-S269 laptop. And with Fedora Core 6 out, the synaptics driver is (surprise! surprise!) yet again a pain.
Simply having the
Option "SHMConfig" "true
line in the xorg.conf file isn’t enough to get synclient, gsynaptics, or ksynaptics working in FC6, even though that was enough for FC5. Now you need to be sure both of these lines are in your xorg.conf:
Option "SHMConfig" "true" Option "UseShm" "true"
Once those are added, gsynaptics, ksynaptics, and my preferred synclient option worked fine for managing the Synaptic touchpad.
UPDATE
I can only get gsynaptics and synclient to work with these instructions if ksynaptics is also installed. Hope to know why soon.
FINAL UPDATE
synclient, gsynaptics, and ksynaptics all work fine now. They started working right after the last kernel update. IIRC, the same thing happened in FC4 and FC5. The kernel that ships with Fedora only seems to work well with my hardware after the first kernel update.