Laptop touchpad woes (Sharp laptop)

[clark9201]

I'm sorry if this has been answered elsewhere; I've searched the forums and haven't found anything that seems to apply.

I have been running Kubuntu for a little over a year, so I'm fairly familiar with it and have been able to solve most of my own problems (even though I'm still pretty much a newbie), but this one has me stumped and I'm not interested in putting up with it much longer.

I recently upgraded my laptop from Dapper Drake to Feisty Fawn and several problems appeared. The only significant one that is still hanging around is that my touchpad does not work. It used to work (in Dapper), but now does not (in Feisty). I've checked my xorg.conf file and it appears ok. There is a 'Synaptic' Input Device entry and it appears to be configured correctly. I've tried installing (and uninstalling and re-installing) ksynaptics and it won't work. It gives me an error about adding a 'SHMConfig' entry to my xorg.conf file, which I've done, but that doesn't seem to help either. And yes, after each change I've made to the xorg.conf file or package installed/uninstalled, I've restarted the xserver.

So, are there any known issues with touchpad support for Feisty Fawn or are there any new packages/dependencies since Dapper Drake that I should be investigating? I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[MoonRise]

Re: Laptop touchpad woes (Sharp laptop)

Here is my XORG section relating to the mouse and touchpad Maybe it will help, not sure.

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
	Option		"SHMConfig"		"on"
EndSection

[clark9201]

Re: Laptop touchpad woes (Sharp laptop)

Thanks for the reply, but mine says the same thing.