Installing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on IBM Lenovo 3000 G430
Several days ago, my sister bought notebook, IBM Lenovo 3000 G430. She asked me to install Linux on her new notebook, then I tried Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, as I assumed that Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distro which have one of the best hardware support. Installation was running successful. Almost all of […]
Several days ago, my sister bought notebook, IBM Lenovo 3000 G430. She asked me to install Linux on her new notebook, then I tried Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, as I assumed that Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distro which have one of the best hardware support. Installation was running successful. Almost all of the hardware was running well, except for synaptics touch pad.
Then I tried to googling further to find more information about this problem. Refer to this Synaptics Touchpad Community Ubuntu Documentation, I should enable SHMConfig in order to make the touch pad work. How to enable SHMConfig? First, open your terminal, then type this command:
sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi
Copy and paste this into the file:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<deviceinfo version=”0.2″>
<device>
<match key=”input.x11_driver” string=”synaptics”>
<merge key=”input.x11_options.SHMConfig” type=”string”>True</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Save and close gedit then reboot the machine. Is it all done? No, not yet, I still can’t make my touchpad work, then I tried to find keyboard combination to activate the touchpad, which is Fn - F8. I hit it twice, then voila.. Now I can make my touchpad work.
I’m sure that this is not final solution, cause I still have to hit keyboard Fn - F8 twice everytime I boot into GNOME Desktop Manager. But, don’t worry, in the next Ubuntu release (9.04) Jaunty Jackalope, I hope this problem can be solved 100%.
