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