Hey, I just bought a new Toshiba A355 Sattelite and installed Jaunty on it.

The only problem is that, the mouse bad is about flush with the space bar, and sometimes the edges of my thumbs touch the corners of it, and in a terminal this leads to inadvertent copying and pasting, and not as bad ( although I feel that way ) causes me to accidentally fire my weapon when playing fps games.

I've tried configuring Xorg to use the Synaptics driver and the SHMConfig option so I can use synclient or gsynaptics, but whenever I try to launch these programs, they complain that SHMConfig is not enabled. Furthermore, when I look at Xorg.0.log, I can see that after the Synaptics module is loaded, it appears that my touchpad is sensed as an ALPs touchpad, which is supposed to be supported under synaptics anyway.

Anyway, here is my xorg.conf and the log section.

log
Code:
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint                                                                                            
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"                                                                                                                             
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so                                                                                               
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"                                                                                                         
        compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 0.99.3                                                                                                      
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver                                                                                                                
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0                                                                                                      
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.99.3                                                                                                            
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9"                                                                                                                 
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: x-axis range 0 - 1023                                                                                                     
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: y-axis range 0 - 767                                                                                                      
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: pressure range 0 - 127
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: finger width range 0 - 0
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: buttons: left right middle
(II) ALPS touchpad detected: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint. Applying customised settings...
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
(II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Mouse
(**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
(**) PS/2 Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) PS/2 Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) PS/2 Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
xorg.conf
Code:
Section "Monitor"                                                                                                                                        
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"                                                                                                            
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"                                                                                                
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"                                                                                          
        Option      "DPMS" "true"                                                                                                                        
EndSection                                                                                                                                               

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24                
        SubSection "Display"               
                Viewport   0 0             
                Depth     24               
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver  "synaptics"
        Option  "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
        Option "SHMConfig" "1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "DontZap"       "True"
EndSection

I think that I can use my BIOS or tpconfig to disable the touchpad alltogether, but I'd need to be using an external mouse, and it could be kind of a pain in the butt to enable it again. I was really hoping to be able to use the "disable touchpad while typing" option in gsynaptics