# Touchpad
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088
**Category:** SLED Configure-Administer
**Created:** [September 13, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088 "2012-09-13T08:39:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@naren\_bishayee](https://forums.suse.com/u/naren_bishayee)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/1 "2012-09-13T08:39:40Z")
Hi all,
Lastday I re-installed SLED-11-SP2 32 bit with Gnome, but I cant able to only scroll with my touchpad, rest of the functions are well (click, cursor movement). Whenever I tried to open “Touchpad” from Control Center, it displaying the below message,
“GSynaptics couldn’t initialize.
You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics”
But system automatically installed GSynaptics, checked from “Software manager”
Can any one give me the suggestion, how to activate the touchpad.
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/2 "2012-09-14T06:14:42Z")
> [@naren bishayee](#):
>
> Hi all,
> Lastday I re-installed SLED-11-SP2 32 bit with Gnome, but I
> cant able to only scroll with my touchpad, rest of the functions are
> well (click, cursor movement). Whenever I tried to open “Touchpad” from
> Control Center, it displaying the below message,
> “GSynaptics couldn’t initialize.
> You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use
> GSynaptics”
>
> But system automatically installed GSynaptics, checked from “Software
> manager”
>
> Can any one give me the suggestion, how to activate the touchpad.
Hi
Have you used YaST to setup the display (including the touchpad)?
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 3 days 7:22, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.16, 0.13
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
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### Author:  [@naren\_bishayee](https://forums.suse.com/u/naren_bishayee)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/3 "2012-09-16T06:15:13Z")
Hi malcolm,
Yes, I also used Yast to setup touchpad, but, when I open “Mouse Model”, I found “Mouse 1” is enabled & "Mouse : " and also the “Mouse 2” is disabled, so if I set it (“Mouse 1”) to “Synaptics Touchpad” & during saveing the settings without test sax2 display the following error popup
“Saving Configuration Failed”
“The following report has been created”
“saX library : success”
“X configuration : Data incomplete in file”
“/var/lib/sax/xorg.confData incomplete in file”
“/var/lib/sax/xorg.conf Undefined Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” referenced by ServerLayout”
““Layout[all]”. Undefined Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” referenced by ServerLayout “Layout[all]””
One thing is that, for display problem, I remove ati packages from Software Management , restart the system, boot from PAE kernel and installed “amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86\_64.run” from amd site, where I choose 4300 series card, because before doing these I opened “Amd catalyst Control center” & there I found my graphics card is 4300 series. And after a restart, compiz is working with PAE kernel.
But still touchpad is not working (scroll).
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/4 "2012-09-16T06:37:39Z")
> [@naren bishayee](#):
>
> Hi malcolm,
> Yes, I also used Yast to setup touchpad, but, when
> I open “Mouse Model”, I found “Mouse 1” is enabled & “Mouse :
> ” and also the “Mouse 2” is disabled, so if I set it (“Mouse
> 1”) to “Synaptics Touchpad” & during saveing the settings without test
> sax2 display the following error popup
>
> “Saving Configuration Failed”
> “The following report has been created”
> “saX library : success”
> “X configuration : Data incomplete in file”
> “/var/lib/sax/xorg.confData incomplete in file”
> “/var/lib/sax/xorg.conf Undefined Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0”
> referenced by ServerLayout”
> ““Layout[all]”. Undefined Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” referenced by
> ServerLayout “Layout[all]””
>
> One thing is that, for display problem, I remove ati packages from
> Software Management , restart the system, boot from PAE kernel and
> installed “amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86\_64.run” from amd
> site, where I choose 4300 series card, because before doing these I
> opened “Amd catalyst Control center” & there I found my graphics card is
> 4300 series. And after a restart, compiz is working with PAE kernel.
>
> But still touchpad is not working (scroll).
Hi
OK, do you get any output that identifies the device from the command;
```auto
xinput
and
synclient
```
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 5 days 7:44, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.18
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
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### Author:  [@naren\_bishayee](https://forums.suse.com/u/naren_bishayee)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/5 "2012-09-17T12:18:24Z")
HI malcolm,
can you give me the proper code to execute, I tried “xinput” “synclient” two individual command & outcome is help from above two commands.
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### Author:  [@AlexDudko](https://forums.suse.com/u/AlexDudko)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/6 "2012-09-18T12:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=naren\_bishayee;6907]HI malcolm,
can you give me the proper code to execute, I tried “xinput” “synclient” two individual command & outcome is help from above two commands.[/QUOTE]
> [@](#):
>
> xinput list
For the latter command it should be
> [@](#):
>
> synclient -l
to list current user settings, but in my case the output is “Couldn’t find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?” though touchpad is working.
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### Author:  [@naren\_bishayee](https://forums.suse.com/u/naren_bishayee)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/7 "2012-09-18T14:41:27Z")
Thanks Alex,
# naren\_bishayee@linux-9dxj:~\> xinput list “Virtual core pointer” id=0 [XPointer] Num\_buttons is 32 Num\_axes is 2 Mode is Relative Motion\_buffer is 256 Axis 0 : Min\_value is -1 Max\_value is -1 Resolution is 0 Axis 1 : Min\_value is -1 Max\_value is -1 Resolution is 0 “Virtual core keyboard” id=1 [XKeyboard] Num\_keys is 248 Min\_keycode is 8 Max\_keycode is 255 “Keyboard[0]” id=2 [XExtensionKeyboard] Type is KEYBOARD Num\_keys is 248 Min\_keycode is 8 Max\_keycode is 255 “Mouse[1]” id=3 [XExtensionPointer] Type is MOUSE Num\_buttons is 9 Num\_axes is 2 Mode is Relative Motion\_buffer is 256 Axis 0 : Min\_value is -1 Max\_value is -1 Resolution is 1 Axis 1 : Min\_value is -1 Max\_value is -1 Resolution is 1
naren\_bishayee@linux-9dxj:~\> synclient -l
Couldn’t find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
naren\_bishayee@linux-9dxj:~\>
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### Author:  [@sollndas](https://forums.suse.com/u/sollndas)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/touchpad/23088/8 "2014-12-29T10:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=naren\_bishayee;6849]Hi all,
Lastday I re-installed SLED-11-SP2 32 bit with Gnome, but I cant able to only scroll with my touchpad, rest of the functions are well (click, cursor movement). Whenever I tried to open “Touchpad” from Control Center, it displaying the below message,
“GSynaptics couldn’t initialize.
You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics”
But system automatically installed GSynaptics, checked from “Software manager”
Can any one give me the suggestion, how to activate the touchpad.[/QUOTE]
I had the same problem in openSUSE 13.1 with LXDE.
The touchpad was disabled by the boot option “psmouse.proto=bare”.
Deleting this option cured the problem.
Regards
sollndas