syndaemon no longer works without SHMConfig

[John S. Gruber]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

syndaemon in Intrepid was able to function without SHMConfig. This functionality is gone in Jaunty with 0.99.3-1ubuntu1 when 104_syndaemon_xinput_props.patch was dropped as obsolete.

Message:
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

Installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.99.3-1ubuntu2
Linux gruber-laptop 2.6.28-5-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 22 21:21:04 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

I've attached an updated 108_syndaemon_xinput_props.patch assuming this functionality is desired in Jaunty. I've tested it on my system.

I assume that the reference to xfree86-driver-synaptics of the bug reporting guidelines' on this new bug reporting page is out-of-date and that I've done the right thing changing this to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.99.3-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfree86-driver-synaptics
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-5-generic i686

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 295236, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

duanedesign: I'm the original reporter and at present I don't believe this problem is a duplicate of bug 295236. The message reported is different and my problem started with Jaunty -- Intrepid was ok.

As far as I'm concerned the status of Fix Released is correct for this particular bug report--xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (source xfree86-driver-synaptics) version 0.99.3-2ubuntu1 corrected this problem and 0.99.3-2ubuntu4 continues to work for me.

To take advantage of this feature I can use the following command:

syndaemon -i 2 -d

Note that I'm not using a floating point -i value nor am I using the -S option, which would attempt to use shared memory.

I'd be happy to report details of my configuration if that turns out to be helpful in determining why syndaemon is working without shared memory for me but not working for other commenters in bug 295236.

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

John,
thank you for taking the time to add more comments to the bug. I am glad you caught this.
Dh