Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply.
I do indeed use a USB mouse and then, as you've experienced, I can use both the touchpad and the USB mouse at once. I guess you missed the very first post of this thread. My problem is that I only want to disable the 'tap' functionality of my touchpad. I need all the other functionality for when I am sitting out on the deck or somewhere else that isn't conducive to using a mouse, but the 'tap' functionality of my touchpad is driving me nuts. It's waaay to sensitive. Whenever I touch the pad at all it thinks I'm tapping and if the pointer happens to be over a button or a web page link, it clicks it. None of the touchpad controls in KDE Control center, or manually changing them in my XF86Config-4 make any difference whatsoever. This is why I think my tochpad is emulating a mouse. However, since there's no 'tap' option for a mouse...there's no way to shut it off that I can see. The BIOS is no help either...it has no options of any use in it. Jon On September 3, 2005 05:54 pm, Dave Bourassa wrote: > Domain match. > Remove domain from Allow list --> > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=remove_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+PpDI >0Rq/fWFgg Block domain --> > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=block_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+PpDI0 >Rq/fWFgg > > Jon wrote: > > Thanks Graham, > > > > I tried the Synaptics driver and followed the install isntructions, but > > to no avail. No errors or anything, just no change in behaviour. > > > > I almost think that my touchpad is emulating a mouse somehow and that > > XF86 is unaware that it's a touchpad. I think this because shutting the > > touchpad off altogether in the KDE Control Centre has no effect and my > > XF86Config-4 file actually says in it 'No Synpatics touchpad detected' > > and 'ALSP Touchpad not detected'. > > > > Very frustrating... > > > > Jon > > -- snipped a bunch... > > Your touch pad, if it's anything like my panasonic tough book, is indeed > emulating a mouse. Probably a ps2 one, specifically. When I first got > my tough book, I found that the touch pad (tp) was not my favorite input > device, so I looked into installing an external mouse. I found that if > I hooked up a serial mouse to it, I could use the tp or the external > mouse, but not both. > > If I had set up the external mouse, and powered up, then I was finding > that I'd go through the boot process and discover no mouse available at > all. I expect I could have done some fiddling to get them both up and > running, but an easier solution for me was to use a usb mouse. That > way, I never had a problem using either the tp or the usb mouse. Both > worked right off the bat. > > This was my preferred solution, because if I had hooked up a serial > mouse, or a ps2 mouse, I usually had to power down to hook up the > external mouse. With a usb device, it was always hot swappable, and I > never had to power down/up or fiddle with drivers. It always just > worked. I eventually got a miniature usb 4 port hub to expand my usb > devices, to make up for using up the only usb port on my tough book. > > Your needs aren't quite clear, unless I missed something. My apologies > if I'm belabouring the obvious. Were you wanting to disable your tp, or > just use an external mouse? If the latter, then you just need to get a > usb mouse. There are some good wireless ones available, miniature, too, > for laptops. That's what I finally settled on. > > hth. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
