My laptop: HP Pavilion ze2000
My distribution: Mepis 3.3.1
My Kernel: 2.6.10
I don't have
gpm installed.
My goal:
to disable my touchpad (it annoys me when I use my keyboard + USB mouse).
After
tpconfig -i:
Quote:
Found Synaptics Touchpad.
Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode).
Sensor type: unknown (0).
Geometry: rectangular/landscape/up.
Packets: absolute, 80 packets per second.
Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures.
Edge motion: none.
Z threshold: 6 of 7.
2 button mode; corner tap is right button click.
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I followed this post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sable+touchpad
What I did:
1. I edited XF86Config-4; I show relevant sections below (the changed lines are shown in
bold):
Quote:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
#InputDevice "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
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Quote:
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
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Quote:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.06"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Repeater" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
EndSection
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2. I installed Ksynaptics
3. I installed tpconfig, looking for another way to control the touchpad, but then I found out that it only works when X is inactive. So, I uninstalled it.
Results:
After reboot, the touchpad is active as usual.
synclient TouchpadOff=1 does not change anything.
Changing parameters on Ksynaptics does not change anything.
I will highly appreciate any useful input.
Synaptics touchpad does not respond to (ksynaptics or synclient)
Disabling the touchpad on the fly
