On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote: > >On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes > >problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that > >key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? > >What should be a sure fire way is to disable it in BIOS. I do that, but > >it has no effect.
> I've always eschewed the use of touchpads and trackpoints, using a > mouse instead. The BIOS setting has always worked to turn off the > annoying little gizmos for me. Perhaps it worked for you because you turned both off. I'll give it a try to see what happens. > I remember using something else a long time ago from the CLI: > > $synclient TouchpadOff=1 This actually works! I put it into ~/.fluxbox/startup file, and it works from there as well. > One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the > intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for updating > the microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely possible > that a fix in the microcode update is defeating your attempt at > turning the touchpad off in the BIOS. But that surely would be a bug > in the behavior of the microcode if it was changing your deliberate > settings in the BIOS. Interesting, but I've no idea. Know nothing about intel-microcode, iucode-tool, or an AMD equivalent (I'm running amd64). With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But this needs to be pursued in another thread. Thanks, Jape -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150710195634.gn14...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info