On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
and this goddamned touchpad on this lappy cannot be disabled, so parts
of the above line got overwritten when it decided to move the cursor
without bothering to advise me. If someone can advise me on howto
disable it, I'll send them a jug of a local wine we think is pretty good
for a commodity wine.
My procedure involves a set of screw drivers and an Xacto knife. Do, I
still get the wine? :-)
Ed
If it works!
(1) Check the BIOS. There may be a setting to enable/disable the touchpad
or the pointing stick.
(2) Try removing the syanptics RPM. I'm not sure what that leaves you
with, possibly a touchpad that moves the cursor but doesn't scroll or tap.
(3) See /usr/share/doc/synaptics*/ and man synaptics. (In particular,
check out the suggestively named TouchpadOff parameter.) If what bothers
you is accidental tapping when you are typing, man syndaemon.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
