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authorPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2012-02-04 23:35:53 +1000
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2012-05-10 09:42:19 +1000
commit83d88b253139f9c92d619e7ad7c3981138893536 (patch)
treef05ba914296598ba6871751b91b454205c9650bf /man
parent6dea359bc8f507eb46293f7fe5041b0cd6d0dbaa (diff)
Bury shm - or what was left of it
SHM configuration was removed in Apr 2009 (c09a3d50e9), since then it has only been usedful for debugging. And we have better tools (evtest) for debugging hardware events. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/man/synaptics.man b/man/synaptics.man
index ab6e61d..4a9dfc9 100644
--- a/man/synaptics.man
+++ b/man/synaptics.man
@@ -92,11 +92,6 @@ psaux raw device access (Linux 2.4)
psm FreeBSD psm driver
.TE
.TP 7
-.BI "Option \*qSHMConfig\*q \*q" boolean \*q
-Switch on/off shared memory for run-time debugging. This option does not
-have an effect on run-time configuration anymore and is only useful for
-hardware event debugging.
-.TP 7
.BI "Option \*qLeftEdge\*q \*q" integer \*q
X coordinate for left edge. Property: "Synaptics Edges"
.TP 7
@@ -563,9 +558,9 @@ Coordinates to the left of LeftEdge are part of the left edge (areas
1, 4 and 7), coordinates to the left of LeftEdge and above TopEdge
(area 1) are part of the upper left corner, etc.
.PP
-A good way to find appropriate edge parameters is to enable the
-SHMConfig option and run "synclient \-m 1" to see the x/y coordinates
-corresponding to different positions on the touchpad.
+A good way to find appropriate edge parameters is to use evtest(1) on the
+device to see the x/y coordinates corresponding to different positions on
+the touchpad.
.PP
The perceived physical edges may be adjusted with the AreaLeftEdge,
AreaRightEdge, AreaTopEdge, and AreaBottomEdge options. If these values are
@@ -795,8 +790,7 @@ area, a right or middle click is performed.
.SH "DEVICE PROPERTIES"
Synaptics 1.0 and higher support input device properties if the driver is
-running on X server 1.6 or higher. On these driver versions, Option
-"SHMConfig" is not needed to enable run-time configuration. The synclient tool
+running on X server 1.6 or higher. The synclient tool
shipped with synaptics version 1.1 uses input device properties by default.
.
Properties supported:
@@ -1020,6 +1014,8 @@ The following options are no longer part of the driver configuration:
.BI "Option \*qSpecialScrollAreaRight\*q \*q" boolean \*q
.TP
.BI "Option \*qGuestMouseOff\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qSHMConfig\*q \*q" boolean \*q
.SH "AUTHORS"
.LP