Hey guys, this is my first post, but I've read many helpful articles and I would like to thank the community for all your help.

I've had Slackware 12.0 for about a week now, I also have Ubuntu and openSUSE so I have some Linux experience. But I'm stuck on this, I can't disable tapping on Slackware 12.0, I've configured the xorg.conf on Ubuntu and openSUSE and disabled it. But it's not working on Slackware.

When I boot I notice these 2 lines for my touch pad:

Nov 25 11:08:01 darkstar kernel: input: ImPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input3

Nov 26 11:13:22 Hubbard /usr/sbin/gpm[2341]: imps2: Auto-detected intellimouse PS/2

and here's my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "SHMconfig" "on"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
EndSection

I think I may need to download the synaptics driver, but any help will be very much appreciated.

Also I'm also using Xfce but it doesn't have a battery or network monitor and when I go to add to panel it doesn't have a battery monitor or a network monitor do I just run the KDE one? if so do you know where it's located? or do I have to download a seperate one?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi,

And welcome to LQ!

I can't help you with the tapping, I'm afraid, but for the monitoring
stuff you could use GKRellm.



Cheers,
Tink

thanks man it works, but does anyone know how to disable tapping on Slackware i've tried everything and can't find any tutorials or other topics that help.

also is there away to disable udev events at boot

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Have a look at /etc/udev - specifically
the rules.


Cheers,
Tink

I haven't used Slackware in quite some time, but I know on Suse and Ubuntu, you can use gsynaptics (likely ksynaptics for KDE) to turn it off.

Thanks man, works now I was just trying to stop it from trying to connect to the internet at startup.

I don't think Slackware comes with those but i'll look, thnx