Seems one of the SLED 10 Kernel updates in the last few weeks has rendered the
Synaptics touchpad on my laptop useless. It's so overly sensitive I can
actially get it to move by waving my hand over the housepad sometimes,
really...

I have read similar problems and tried many "Fixs". The default Gnome mouse
controls do nothing to aleviate the problem. I even tried installing the
KSynaptics drivers to no avail (even though it's installed it disapears
form the "New Software" section of the Control Center after a reboot and
won't start from the command line)

I have also figured out that editing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually then
resstarting X does not change the settings. (it say say don't edit that
file, but i'm at the end of my rope!)

I CAN'T be the only one experiencing this problem. Does anyone have a
perminant fix?

Thanks.

even when you don't touch your mouse, then I don't know what's the problem. Once, the mouse was too slow by me

have a look at http://fluffi.info/inspiron9300/single/XF86Config-4

configure these lines at your needs

Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.015"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"

Thanks,

But I have tried many of these types of settings and restarted X with no change. Seems that the Gnome mouse controller is dominant. I know this because I've disabled tapping on the touchpad manually in xorg.conf and restarted X but I can still tap the pad and register a click. I can also see no settings are changing by running :>synclient to see all of the settings.

So, my question is how can I remove the touchpad from Gnomes control totally so I can just use the Synaptics driver I installed or better yet, configure it once and for all in xorg.conf I don't mind hacking files perminantly to remove Gnomes ability to see the touchpad.

Thanks

Contrary to Nuro305 I do NOT WANT my touchpad (I have to have a mouse) but with come applications it will not stay "switched off". Anyone know how to disable permanently?

Compaq Presario 2100EA with Suse 10.1 and Gnome.

Well,

If you install the Synaptics Touchpad driver you can have it start on each login and disable it using that program. Not a hard fix but it'll work.

Glad my Alienware laptop has a button to turn it off.... It's totally useless. THat's what I don't get, it was FINE for the first few months I had it and I sent it back and Alienware assured me it's not a hardware problem.

Again, if anyone knows how to remove my Touchpad from Gnome's control please post how to do it. I think if I just use the SYnaptics driver it may behave.

Thanks.

Just wanted to finish this thread..........

As I mentioned, Alienware ASSURED me the Touchpad was OK (I sent it back sans-hard drive because they don't support Linux of course) so I was convinced it was by beloved Linux to blame....... NOT !

I really didn't want to blow away my hard drive to test Windows on it, so I purchased another drive and what do you know....... after about 10 munites of use, it was just as crazy in Windows. Back to the shop for time #3...

This is now the 3rd problem I've had with this Alienware laptop in 3 months. (CD ROM died for CDR's, battey was acting up and now bad touchpad) It's a smoking fast laptop, but I'm not too happy with the quality, or talking to India for support now that Dell bought them... Gee, that's a suprise.