Disabling tapping Slackware 12.0

MatHubbard · 11-26-2007, 12:45 PM

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.

Tinkster · 11-27-2007, 02:57 AM

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

MatHubbard · 11-27-2007, 09:39 PM

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.

MatHubbard · 11-29-2007, 08:45 PM

also is there away to disable udev events at boot

Tinkster · 11-29-2007, 09:08 PM

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

Cheers,
Tink

Slokunshialgo · 11-29-2007, 09:57 PM

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.

MatHubbard · 11-30-2007, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

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

Cheers,
Tink

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slokunshialgo

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.

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