On Sat, 6 May 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
Now I've also removed the synaptics drivers, trying to get rid of the crazy
effects it can do when typing and your hand or a finger gets within an inch
of this damned touchpad and all of a sudden your curser has moved to
someplace else on the screen. But even after rebooting again after removal
of the drivers, I still have a touchpad, but now it complains about synch
losses.
Do I have to make the dealer disconnect it to get rid of it?
Or you could learn to configure the driver. All those effects are highly
controllable--see /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/. Check out gsynaptics
for a GUI configurator (not sure how well it works). Also take a look at
syndaemon (part of the synaptics rpm), which might help with your
wandering thumbs when typing.
You might also be able to disable the touchpad in the BIOS if nothing else
makes you happy.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
