Richard wrote:

I screwed up and lost my touchpad setting for my Dell 1545 Laptop. I have deleted all the files I can find that affects it and reinstalled to no avail. No matter what I do I cant get the tapping back.

The file I lost is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf.

The reinstallation of libsynaptics gets me a truncated config but no tapping. I have searched the world, even copied the similar file from Mint12 and Slackopuppy, but still cant get the tapping back.

I also get an error when I try to use the touchpad apps. The error says there's no Option SHMConfig = 1 or true. And there is. Another error says it cant find the driver, but that error was there before I lost the file.

Can anyone tell me how to get the conf file back?

I append one that (a) has tap to click, and (b) has middle mouse click by right top corner tap. This is meant to be used _in addition_ to 50-synaptics.conf installed by openSUSE. You can see if it has been loaded in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. There must be lines like [470846.342] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event3) [470846.342] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall" [470846.342] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall" [470846.342] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad tap to klick" and then further information about Synaptics configuration. Use the command "man synaptics" for further explanation of these options. If your problem is really with shared memory (SHM), then I can't help, though. HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod@acm.org