On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:54 -0500, Bob Barrett wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Something happened with the recent updates such that my touchpad is > > operational again. I don't want it to be operational because I > > frequently seem to accidentally move the mouse when I type. > > > > Prior to this I disabled the mouse by adding the following to my > > xorg.conf file: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Synaptics" > > Driver "synaptics" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > > Option "SHMConfig" "on" > > EndSection > > > > For some reason this section has now been commented out. Why would that > > be ? > > > > Back in Fedora 8, I used ksynaptics to control my touchpad. What is > > its status these days ? > > > > How do I once again disable my touchpad ? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > On my HP laptop, there's an on/off switch at the top of the mouse pad > in the surrounding trim strip. It's hard to see, but I can feel it. > > Your's may have a hardware switch, somewhere. My laptop DOES have a hardware switch, but the OS isn't recognizing it. I'd love to be able to control the on/off of my touchpad with the switch. I logged this as a bug back in October. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466016 Thus far it hasn't been acted on. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
