Disabling touchpad
I do NOT want the touchpad, ever. Apart from taking the PC apart and physically removing the connection, and that remains a possibility, what can I do? I have tried commenting out all the lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but nothing happens.
Latest Zenwalk in an Asus b43f. |
I use the xinput method described here... http://blog.yjl.im/2010/12/using-xin...ard-mouse.html
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steve[~]$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Mouse1 id=6 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Keyboard1 id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] steve[~]$ xinput list-props Mouse1 Device 'Mouse1': Device Enabled (115): 1 Coordinate Transformation Matrix (117): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 Device Accel Profile (225): 0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration (226): 1.000000 Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (227): 1.000000 Device Accel Velocity Scaling (228): 10.000000 steve[~]$ xinput list-props Virtual core XTEST keyboard unable to find device Virtual unable to find device core unable to find device XTEST unable to find device keyboard steve[~]$ Virtual core XTEST keyboard Does not show a touchpad? But shows info mouse. |
My netbook has a Synaptics touchpad, the most common type. Whereas upon checking, your Asus b43f laptop has an Elantech touchpad, one that I've not heard of before.
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I use Debian, and gpointing-device-settings is a settings gui for pointing devices, that might work with Elantech. Not sure if that package is in your repos though. Quote:
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A IT guy tried a few things (I cannot say what) but gave up due to lack of time and disconnected the touchpad physically. It certainly works that way, or doesn't work ....
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For future reference, what sometimes works is if the pad is seen by the synaptic client. You can tell with
synclient -l If it lists some stuff, the touchpad is seen by by the synaptics driver. (ELantech should work with the synaptic, as should Sentelic--both becoming more popular with some of the ultra books, and fortunately, some of the kernel folks are adding support.) Now, if this particular mouse works with synaptics, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ouse_detection might work. The one that works for me, to disable while typing (but doesn't disable entirely) syndaemon -t -k -i 2 -d & |
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jlinkels |
I prefer to use a mouse and the pb is that I touch the touchpad accidentally while typing. Very annoying. I have tried touchpads but I cannot get used to this as a way of using the PC.
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Ah ok. Personal preferences.
jlinkels |
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