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James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> One of my gentoo users only uses and external mouse |
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> and hates the synaptics pad. |
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> I cannot get rid of the input being active from the |
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> synaptics pad. |
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> make.conf has this entry: |
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> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev fglrx vesa" |
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> In xorg.conf I have it explicitly disabled: |
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> # InputDevice "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore" |
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> Here is what is installed: |
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> ati-drivers 8.32.5 |
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> kde-3.5.9 |
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> xorg-x11-7.4 |
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> It has this video chip: |
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> Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) |
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> Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? |
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> James |
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I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, |
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as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to load the driver. I'd |
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suggest just #'ing out the whole InputDevice section relating to the |
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synaptics pad, and running emerge -C synaptics or emerge -C |
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xf86-input-synaptics, depending on which driver you're using. That |
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should completely remove your ability to use the synaptic touch pad. |
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