Do you still have the Synaptics line in your config? If not, add the line
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">1</merge> to
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi
Try the command synclient -l. Does that report an error too? If so, then I need to see your log file.
Do you still have the Synaptics line in your config? If not, add the line x11_options. SHMConfig" type="string" >1</merge> to hal/fdi/ policy/ 20thirdparty/ 10-synaptics. fdi
<merge key="input.
/usr/share/
Try the command synclient -l. Does that report an error too? If so, then I need to see your log file.