Erratic touchpad on Vostro 1500, unable to use Ksynaptics

[mushroom_cloud]

Hi there,

i just bought my Vostro 1500 a few weeks ago and while i'm still busy, i'm trying to configure my hardware. Since this laptop is quite popular now, there is a chance some other people on here would need help or have answers to some of my issues. Well, i'm just going to list down my laptop status right now;

Things working:
1. Wireless card
2. Nvidia drivers (installed using Edgy)
3. USB drives
4. Webcamera
5. Sound is working, but read on..

Things not working:

1. Bluetooth
2. DVD player (i'll paste the contents of my Fstab file)
3. Headphone jack (when i connect the headphones, the laptop speakers are not cut off and are still on)
4. Touchpad (it's working, but it has erratic tapping, and no side scrolling. Somebody adviced me to have Ksynaptics, but it doesn't let Ksynaptics load, attaching a picture of the error message)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config -- 
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=e645986e-d871-450c-98bb-72e05a41cc3c / jfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=c822527f-e6c6-4d76-bdc5-835db4f3f70f /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=733d86e8-ef85-4007-9bef-b9cf4c113605 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

[img width=400 height=250]http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e37/mushroomcloudwarrior/snapshot4.png[/img]
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../snapshot4.png
The error when trying to use Ksynaptics

The Chmod file

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Oct 4 10:33:51 PDT 2007


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Layout0"
 screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
	Inputdevice	"Keyboard0"	"CoreKeyboard"
	Inputdevice	"Mouse0"	"CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	Rgbpath		"/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load		"dbe"
	Load		"extmod"
	Load		"type1"
	Load		"freetype"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	
	# generated from default
	Identifier	"Mouse0"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"no"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	
	# generated from default
	Identifier	"Keyboard0"
	Driver		"kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
	Vendorname	"Unknown"
	Modelname	"Unknown"
	Horizsync	30.0	-	110.0
	Vertrefresh	50.0	-	150.0
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Device0"
	Driver		"nvidia"
	Vendorname	"NVIDIA Corporation"
	Option		"AddARGBVisuals"	"True"
	Option		"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"True"
	Option		"NoLogo"	"True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Device		"Device0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
	Defaultdepth	24
	Option		"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"True"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option		"Composite"	"Enable"
EndSection

I will appreciate any help from anyone here, really.

Thanks.

[marshallbanana]

Re: Erratic touchpad on Vostro 1500, unable to use Ksynaptics

From my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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

You can see the SHMConfig line that I had to manually add (I also use ksynaptics).
You should just have to add that one line.
To edit the file run the following in the command line

sudo kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf

What is the chmod file you attached? is it /etc/X11/xorg.conf? just it looks kind of odd, mine starts with the lines

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

If that chmod file is your /etc/X11/xorg.conf I would suggest the first thing you do is run the command
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg



Just to be clear re the headphones, are you getting audio both through the speakers and headphones when they are plugged in?