Here are all the details in one place. First, you need to enable the eeeeevil SHMConfig for the touchpad. xorg.conf below. Restart x. Then -S option (not in the man page for syndaemon, but visible with -h) works.
$ syndaemon -i 0.5 -t -S -d works. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection -- Syndaemon in Intrepid: X Error of failed request: BadDevice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs