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James Ausmus <james.ausmus <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> Sounds like, since you don't have a synaptics driver installed, the synaptics |
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device is being handled like a regular mouse via the evdev driver, and the evdev |
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driver doesn't properly handle the data coming from the touchpad, hence the |
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erratic pointer movement.For disabling, I'm not sure, as I don't have access to |
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a system w/ synaptics on it (until I get home, but that's about 8 hours away |
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yet...), but, after emerging the xf86-input-synaptics driver, and looking at the |
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man page (man synaptics), I see theOption "TouchpadOff" "integer"option - if you |
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set this to "1", then the touchpad is disabled, so I would add in a section for |
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the device in your xorg.conf file, something like: |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "touchpad" |
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Driver "synaptics" |
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Option "Device" "/dev/input/<whatever-it-is - you can find out by doing "cat |
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/proc/bus/input/devices" and looking at the "Handlers" line>" |
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Option "TouchpadOff" "1" |
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EndSectionHTH--James |
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Sorry for the delay, I only get access to this |
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laptop, on a sporadic basis. This did not work for me. |
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thanks, |
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James |
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