ALPS touchpad generaly have slower response when compared to the synaptic based touchpads.

Here’s a simple X hack to boost the sensitivity of my ALPS touchpad which has dramatically improved my experience with my touchpad. This worked on my openSUSE 10.3

1. First, check if you really do have a ALPS touchpad.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep ALPS

sample output;

N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"

2. Make a backup of your xorg.conf file.

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkp

3. Edit the xorg.conf file.

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

4. Navigate to the InputDevice Section and look for the “synaptics” driver portion.

5. Replace everything between the Identifier line and EndSection with the settings below.
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openSuse has released the X.Org patch 7.2-143.11.

The patch fixes the shared memory issue which was causing applications to crash. I fixed my installation by running the Beta fix 7.2-143.10.

I received my update up through the openSUSE updater today and so far everythings been working fine.

I’ve been hit by bug #345131 since updating to the latest xorg-server [7.2-143.9] security update on my openSUSE 10.3 installation. xorg-server version 7.2-143.6 to 7.2-143.9.

VLC, Filezilla and a few other applications stopped working. The bug has something to do with the X Window shared memory (MIT-SHM) overflowing.

My error,

The program ‘Filezilla’ received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was ‘BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)’.
(Details: serial 1072 error_code 11 request_code 147 minor_code 5)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the –sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Few hours of Googling and experimenting later I found my fix. 3  actually.

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Quick update to my previous post, the main openSUSE repositories are back online.

The main openSUSE repositories have been down for about 12 hours now due to hardware failures. If you are using these mirrors then your package manager would most likely fail as mine did. Screen shots below.

So what do you do?

It’s advisable to use a mirror closer to your location. I use Japan. The performance is better when compared with the other Asian mirros.

For the full list of mirrors go to the openSUSE Wiki

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