[ltp] Thinkpad utilities query

[Damien Challet]

On Sunday 24 February 2008 15.24:35 Dom wrote:
> Damien Challet wrote:
> >>> nigel@henry:~$ synclient TouchpadOff=1
> >>> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
> >>> nigel@henry:~$
> >
> > is it a permission problem ?
>
> Can you help me? Maybe I missed something. What group I should be a
> member of? I tried it with root as well, same thing happens.

I do not know, but first do a 

grep SHM /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I get

(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"

which is what you want.

I am able to use the synclient command cited above (ubuntu).