Help with Kubuntu Fiesty

I decided to put Fiesty on an internal hard drive, and I'm in it right now, and I like it quite a bit. I am install Windows (in Qemu) as we speak (I need it for school, and having the option to run it in Linux is preferable).

I have several things I need help with:

1. Touchpad. I tried installing ksynaptics, and the install was fine, but as soon as I try to get into it to use it, I get an error saying that I need to set "SHMConfig" to "on" in the touchpad section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I tried this, but it still didn't work. Any suggestions?
2. I installed NTFS-3g, and I can get my Media Partition from Windows to mount (it in an external enclosure, usb flavoured), and I enabled it, but when I try to access it, it gives me an error about not having permission to access it. Thoughts?
3. I don't remember, but I will be back with more.

 

Hmm... not sure if this will make a difference, but if instead you change the "on" to "true" for the xorg.conf file, does it correct the error you're getting with your touchpad?

I have no experience with NTFS-3G... can't help you there

 

I tried the true setting as well, but that didn't do it. I am very confused about this.

 

did you restart X?

just log out and back in.

 

Yep, got that covered. I did my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

 

could you paste the section of your xorg.conf for your touchpad here?

 

Sure:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
EndSection

 

well, I'm stumped then. if you tried changing it from "on" to "true" and then restarted X, then I'm honestly not sure.

 

Ok. I might switch this install to Ubuntu in a while, see how it is compared to this release of Kubuntu. Then, I will give the other version a try (I forget if it is q or g).

 

it's gsynaptics

 

Thanks. I might give that a try this weekend, I doubt that I will have too much work to do.

 

This is what I use for the quick and easy NTFS solution.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=337970

 

Hi everyone.
I was just fighting for approx. 4 hours with this ksynaptics SHMconfig problem. Finaly i reach some kind of success. I was trying lot of combinations, i was reading lot of config files, nowhere was even word about SHM anything. After that, i start playing with xorg.conf (again )

So working solution in xorg.conf is look like this :
....
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" #Inteligent OS put here also /dev/psaux
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" "true"
EndSection
...

But just this funny change still didn`t help without next step. In the end (five minutes before this post) i tried to disable DMA for USB ports directly in BIOS. And "voila" it is working now. Its true, that I get each boot some nice and pretty error message (dmesg | tail -100) about problem with reseting synaptics, but configuration and also scrolling in all directions is working. I hope it will help to you as well. I will work on it in the future again because i have suspicion that problem is somewhere in configuration of UDEV.

Well what else can I say? Try it and leave me here your observations please.

So folks, for today, have a nice night, i will celebrate my succes with looong sleep.

Always yours Dzs.

HP Compaq nx6310 1.8GHz 1.5Gigs of RAM.