Lenovo 3000 G430 touchpad Problem with ubuntu 8.10

I had a problem using touchpad in ubuntu as it was not working, so I searched on net and find that we have to enable SHMConfig. First, open your terminal, then type this comand:

sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi

Copy and paste this into the file:

Copy and paste this into the file:

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. But it is not yet done...just press fn-F8 and u r done..
I have not yet installed ubuntu 9, hope problem would have been solved...

Some Customization that are good in ubuntu

1.  Open terminal in my right click context menu.


sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal

2. VLC media player

sudo apt-get install vlc

Exporting proxy variable in ubuntu

In terminal type:

gedit $HOME/.bashrc

At the end of the file add:
export http_proxy=http://your_proxy_user:your_proxy_user_password@your_proxy_ip:your_proxy_port