Touch Pad Problem

jsn792006 · 03-02-2009, 12:15 PM

I have Ubuntu & Kubuntu 8.10 installed. My touch pad is driving me nuts in Kubuntu. I can't disable the tap to click in Kubuntu. I can disable it in Ubuntu easily but not Kubuntu. Its not showing up in my lspci

rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8071 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
0b:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711SP1 Memory CardBus Controller (rev 01)
0b:06.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02)
0b:06.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)
0b:06.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$

Also its not showing up on my Xorg.confg file either if i add the input device line X crashes. Then i found someone talking about tpconfig so I intalled it and its gives me this:

rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$ tpconfig
Could not open PS/2 Port [/dev/psaux].rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$

Sudo tpconfig gives me this:

rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$ sudo tpconfig
Found Synaptics Touchpad.
Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode).
rockman-x@rockman-x-laptop:~$

Can someone help me please my goal is to just disable the tap to click in Kubuntu

thanx Jason

Didier Spaier · 03-03-2009, 08:59 AM

If the psmouse module is loaded, remove it:

Code:

rmmod psmouse

If you loose the mouse in doing that, load it again:

Code:

modprobe psmouse

I am hoping that the synaptics driver (built-in in Slackware 12.2 kernels, may be in yours too) needs the psmouse driver to work.

Anyway this won't hurt and is easy to try

Also see this thread. Some people want to use their Synaptics touchpad, other want to disable it, so what can we do

N2fastbikes · 03-13-2009, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

If the psmouse module is loaded, remove it:

Code:

rmmod psmouse

If you loose the mouse in doing that, load it again:

Code:

modprobe psmouse

I am hoping that the synaptics driver (built-in in Slackware 12.2 kernels, may be in yours too) needs the psmouse driver to work.

Anyway this won't hurt and is easy to try

Also see this thread. Some people want to use their Synaptics touchpad, other want to disable it, so what can we do

What is the procedure for disabling touchpad taps in Kubuntu 8.10?

tredegar · 03-13-2009, 01:27 PM

Quote:

What is the procedure for disabling touchpad taps in Kubuntu 8.10?

Make this part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
    Option         "Device"            "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol"          "auto-dev"
    Option         "MaxTapTime"        "0"
EndSection

The red bit turns off touch-to-tap.
Restart X (logout, then login)