Re: [gentoo-user] disable syanptics pad
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, One of my gentoo users only uses and external mouse and hates the synaptics pad. I cannot get rid of the input being active from the synaptics pad. I think you need to set corepointer=0 in the FDI file or something similar to that. Or if you're using xorg.conf point it to a specific mouse instead of /dev/mice or whatever the catch-all mouse device is. May be able to get rid of it even more with udev rules or something to just make it go away. Sorry I don't have specific examples, I'm on a windows machine right now.
Re: [gentoo-user] disable syanptics pad
On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:00:38 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? Have you looked in the Bios? Somewhere around there should be an option to turn the touchpad completely off -- /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Uwe \ / against HTML e-mail | keksvernichter@@gmail.com x against MS attachments | Key: 93BF09A2 @ pool.sks-keyservers.net / \ www.asciiribbon.org| Key: 93BF09A2 @ keys.gnupg.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] disable syanptics pad
James wrote: Hello, One of my gentoo users only uses and external mouse and hates the synaptics pad. I cannot get rid of the input being active from the synaptics pad. make.conf has this entry: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev VIDEO_CARDS=fbdev fglrx vesa In xorg.conf I have it explicitly disabled: # InputDevice Synaptics AlwaysCore Here is what is installed: ati-drivers 8.32.5 kde-3.5.9 xorg-x11-7.4 It has this video chip: Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? James 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.
