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how do i disable the touchpad and use only usb mouse

i have an inspiron 4000. i picked it up at a garage sale for $30. it works fine. asside from a broken hinge and a damaged trackstick.

i installed ubunto 5.04 on it. went fine. every thing works except the trackstick/touchpad. when i type, i think because of the impact on the keypad, the pointer drifts away and i am not able to control it until i fiddle with the trackstick.

the trackstick is broken. there is no actual stick there.

what i want to do is disable the trackstick.

i have spent some time on google. and in these forums but, what i have found doesn't work or doesn't make sense.

i have commented out the sections in the xorg.conf file that refer to the touchpad/trackstick. but they both still work.

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier        "Configured Mouse"

        Driver                "mouse"

        Option                "CorePointer"

        Option                "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"

        Option                "Protocol"                "ImPS/2"

        Option                "ZAxisMapping"                "4 5"

EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"

#        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"

#        Driver          "synaptics"

#        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"

#        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"

#        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"

#        Option                "HorizScrollDelta"        "0"

#EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier        "Default Layout"

        Screen                "Default Screen"

        InputDevice        "Generic Keyboard"

        InputDevice        "Configured Mouse"

#        InputDevice        "Synaptics Touchpad"

what i want to do it disable the trackstick and touchpad so that i can use only my usb mouse.

what do i have to do to disable it???

do you need anymore info?

thanks
aaron.

I have same problem too! :D But now, I know how I can disable it. We just have to set our touchpad as "CorePointer", and our USB mouse as "SendCoreEvents". But, we have to add the "TouchpadOff" option in touchpad section.

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier "Default Layout"

    Screen "Default Screen"

    InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"

    InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "SendCoreEvents" 

    InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier        "Configured Mouse"

        Driver                "mouse"

        #Option                "CorePointer"

        Option                "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"

        Option                "Protocol"                "ImPS/2"

        Option                "ZAxisMapping"                "4 5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"

        Driver          "synaptics"

        #Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"

        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"

        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"

        Option                "HorizScrollDelta"        "0"

        Option                "TouchpadOff"        "1"

        Option                "SHMConfig"            "on"

EndSection

Also, I added "SHMConfig" just in case i have to enable my touchpad on the fly using synclient command :D.
Oo... ya.. but, we have to load synaptics driver to xorg.conf

Code:

Section "Module"

...

Load "synaptics"

Good Luck

regards
Agus Dwi Basuki

i love you...that worked.

but

the track stick still works.

anybody have an idea as to how i can disable it too?

thanks.

:D
did your track stick use your /dev/psaux ?
can we delete (or just rename it) this device to disable our hardware connected to /dev/psaux ? :D
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Quote:

Originally posted by ag2uki
:D
did your track stick use your /dev/psaux ?
can we delete (or just rename it) this device to disable our hardware connected to /dev/psaux ? :D
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ok...so how do i do that?
:scratch: