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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Saphirus Sage <saphirus497 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > > Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? |
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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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> Hmmmm, |
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> Nothing with the word "synaptics" (or either of the packages you |
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> mentioned) |
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> is installed. |
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> I do have a left over, bloated xorg file, so I'll first just delete |
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> the line with the (#) symbol, but, I thought that was the way to |
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> deactivate entries. Looking in xorg.conf.examples did not reveal |
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> any sort of useful infor |
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> Maybe somebody could post a minimal xorg.conf, or a url to some examples? |
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> One additional bit of information. The synaptics pad, when touched, makes |
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> the mouse(cursor) go crazy in a radom-noise-movement sort of pattern. |
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> When I stop touching the synaptics pad and use the external usb mouse, |
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> cursor movement becomes normal as expected. |
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> ideas? |
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Sounds like, since you don't have a synaptics driver installed, the |
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synaptics device is being handled like a regular mouse via the evdev driver, |
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and the evdev driver doesn't properly handle the data coming from the |
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touchpad, hence the erratic pointer movement. |
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For disabling, I'm not sure, as I don't have access to a system w/ synaptics |
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on it (until I get home, but that's about 8 hours away yet...), but, after |
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emerging the xf86-input-synaptics driver, and looking at the man page (man |
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synaptics), I see the |
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Option "TouchpadOff" "integer" |
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option - if you set this to "1", then the touchpad is disabled, so I would |
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add in a section for 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 |
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doing "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" and looking at the "Handlers" line>" |
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Option "TouchpadOff" "1" |
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HTH- |
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-James |
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