On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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.
This bios, if it went to the same school I did 66 years ago, would never
graduate to 2nd grade. None of that stuff is in it.
(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.
That appears to be a dead end:
[root@diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# rpm -qa|grep synaptic
[root@diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]#
[root@diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# man synaptics
No manual entry for synaptics
Interesting. Was this a fresh install or an upgrade? Is the touchpad in
fact a Synaptics? Is it detected as such at boot or by X?
(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.
[root@diablo man syndaemon
No manual entry for syndaemon
Sure, not if you don't have the synaptics package installed.
Next? :-)
Should I install it just so I can disable it? Seems counter intuitive, but
Stranger things have happened in this world of Linux.
what the hey.. I have, but unless it takes a reboot, I can't find where to
start it.
Rebooting is simplest.
Now there is a man syndaemon! which sort of explains the changes to
xorg.conf, but not very well. I also have one of the M$ little bluetooth
mice plugged into the usb port on the right edge of the machine. That works
rather nicely.
syndaemon is only for the tapping-when-typing problem. man synaptics or
read the other docs for more controls.
It would appear that livna is out of step with itself:
nable to satisfy dependencies
Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not
available.
Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not
available.
Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
Now to restart x and see how bad I screwed it up...
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
