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Hello. I've installed SuSe Linux 9.3 Pro on my Gateway 7422GX. Everything is ok except one thing: i can't disable my touchpad. Touchpad and my USB mouse is on one file: /dev/mouse. How can I disable it?
Well, the touchpad does not use the same modules as the USB mouse.
I can't imagine that not being in the BIOS, and I know absolutely nothing
about SuSE, but if nothing else works, you should be able to remove the
PS/2 mouse support from your kernel, and perhaps that will disable the
touchpad.
I have the same problem on a travelmate 254; several fn+Fn keys do not work. xev gives no hit for those keys. Disabling by BIOS? or other? I would like to be able to enable/disable it on the fly, each time I want! It is possible under Windows so it must be possible under linux too! using keyboard special keys for this and other stuff (for example, volume and muting, for this i almost solved the problem...)
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Originally posted by phillips321 in suse 9.3 it may be possible to use SaX2 to disable it? have a little look
ops i have sus 9.2...
but i tried with sax... i killed all input devices like mice that it shows me and...
still i can move my mouse!! - of course i restarted the gfx system too
doing a cat on the /dev/mouse or something like that it happens there is output
both if i move my mouse or if i touch the tpad... hmmm...
Same problem here, I need to totally disable the tocuhpad,
I'm using Redhat RHEL4 with kernel 2.6.11
Notebook Compaq M2000
In the old Compaq 2200 thee where a small switch where you could enable/disable the touchpad, but as always when you upgrade to new model something is left out.
The touchpad is very fustrating when using mouse and you are typing your arm hair or hand touches the touchpad, and you are typing in a diffeent place.
I have been thinking to open the machine to pull the plug, but there must be a way via software to disable it.
I have tried to uninstall all the synaptics drivers so there is absolutly no reference to the touchpad in xorg.conf, but still it is working.
ok i have done: touchpad is out. i did it in a very unfriendly way: i noticed
as said that there's a device that "hears" both tpad and mouse, but still they are reacheable
via single device entry. (check it via cat /dev/mouse or /dev/input/mouse*)
so I made a link of /dev/input/mice to /dev/mouse if I remember well... worked, until I run sax2
which get confused... x86conf in trouble, X didnt started, i fixed it (there where two
line with SendCoreEvent) and now seems to work... but well still I am not able to get back
the touchpad and if I plug out the mouse, nothing can move the pointer! even though I plug in
it again... hm hotplug too get confused?
wll, still i really didn't need the tpad but in a future....
when i will understand better the matter i will post a answer with details... bye
I know, this post is old, but this reply may be usefull for others. I am newbe, but it works on my laptop + USB mouse (distro archlinux, kernel 2.6.13)
To see on witch device your touchpad is mapped, try (in a console)
"cat /dev/input/mouse0 (or mouse1, mouse2,...) and move first only your mouse. Garbage will appear. Then touch your touchpad. If nothing appear, it's the right one. (for me /dev/input/mouse2)
(Press ctrl+c to cancel it.)
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf (make first a backup from yout file!), in Section "InputDevice", replace:
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
with
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouseX" (X ist the right number)
You must have only 1 entry for Input Device. Comment out the others.
Save your new xorg.conf
Rerun X (Ctrl+alt+backspace for killing X session)
It should work
Sorry for my bad english!
the f**king touchpad was driving me insane. I would be typing away and the cursorwould have moved to some randon place in the text nd mucked everything up.
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