Linux Media wrote:
I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step
by step on how to do this from all the posts...
Copy/Rename the FDI file...
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi
edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in the thread appropriate
section for your touchpad (you can discover which touchpad section by
'cat /proc/bus/input/devices')
Reboot
I added:
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
(allowing 'on the fly' shutting on and off of features with 'synclient')
<merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">2</merge>
(Turns the mouse pad tapping (and other) features off)
I can still do:
synclient TouchpadOff=0
to turn the features on.
My /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi is in the paste bin as an
example...
http://fpaste.org/paste/3891
I did it by changing xorg.conf touchpad section to set the touch
duration to zero. I can go dig out the details if you care, lots of
discussion in this list on how to create the xorg.conf.
Thanks, but I did a lot of research prior to figuring this out and the
consensus is that Fedora 10 left out xorg.conf for a reason and that it
is not a good idea to use that approach anymore because it conflicts
with the new approach.
No, the "reason" was that someone decided that it wasn't needed and someone
might screw it up if they had it. The Windows "we know what you want on your
computer" approach. Trust me, for some hardware configurations you absolutely
need it, the autoconfig simply isn't up to properly handling some displays.
You must have missed the long thread (this thread) that's been going on
with this discussion.
You didn't see my name in them? About 30% of my hardware works less than
optimally (or not at all) w/o xorg.conf. I believe (based on what I read) it's
also needed to allow connecting a monitor to a netbook as well, otherwise you
have to boot with the monitor connected and powered up every time to have it
configured.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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