Re: [gentoo-user] How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, James wrote:

> Hello, so I got xorg-server
> working just fine on several machines.......(*!/#FFF....)
>
> Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop.
> The first laptop I want to do this to is working without
> any xorg.conf file nor a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ dir.....
>
> This chipset is a RADEON XPRESS 20M (5955)
>
> So is this file the best one to try to disable the synaptic driver?
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
>
> Suggestions are most welcome as googling has not
> produced much, related to xorg-server-1.9.2
> and how to disable the synaptic pad (driver).
>
> James
>
>

hi james,

i know of 2 methods - either using synclient or xinput. if the synclient method
doesn't work, simply install xinput and the latter one should work.

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cat ~/bin/toggle-touchpad
#/bin/sh
# synclient version
if(synclient -l | grep "TouchpadOff" | grep -q "0") ; then
    synclient TouchpadOff=1
else
    synclient TouchpadOff=0
fi

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cat ~/bin/toggle-touchpad
#/bin/sh
# xinput version
if(xinput list-props TouchPad | grep "Synaptics Off" | grep -q "0") ; then
   xinput set-int-prop TouchPad "Synaptics Off" 8 1
else
   xinput set-int-prop TouchPad "Synaptics Off" 8 0
fi

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