Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

I have been using Fedora 9 from a long time and it really kick’s ass but i was facing the problem that my Touchpad was not working with it but the i found the solution here
Here is how to do it

The easiest was will be to install the package http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/
or you can do it manually here

edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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

all done logout and login again and everything should be working fine

Update: found the rpm package here

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7 Responses to “Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9”

Djays May 30th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Good finally i can touch click

Shashi Ranjan August 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Thanks a lot. Finally my touchpad started working.I exactly wrote those code in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and it worked.

xiaomao101 October 12th, 2008 at 12:40 am

yeah, it works!
thanx a lot

Gridenko November 5th, 2008 at 12:52 am

thanks. works fine. perfect work

vivek August 31st, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Hi, I am able to move and scroll the mouse pointer with my touch pad device. But, I am not able to “click” using the touch pad. Do you have any solution for this?
I use Fedora 9.

Thanks in Advance :)

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