From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M7MpD-0000Iz-6D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 May 2009 04:57:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECCCE0271; Fri, 22 May 2009 04:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.245]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1FAE0271 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 04:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so3243018and.1 for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 21:57:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sHD4Wo27+sUmB3DS5XtZB9DXexVWqUDI4NTzVFKetw0=; b=qsV163oK5lufKIx6wtcPq+IcA+fF6bdvdaygoT4vDNXK39dmMpUFU0i3vBRLvF9qQd pDWi7gBMjWB3iRdZaVKXyLYUo2Mo7NJKHx0I6RrEEKPSiZAWvGh+gr7DGFnsJwy1BxVG /hmB/QBJF0ng8Xi4PaJNJQ+8kbCL9pNzmXBjg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BXOSgBjodl26u5IXRLhE3Mkf7FNYMVXO28kITt+Ydu1PUq8KWgF7Ex0e5I6/2eEVp2 hCcGlCLUqD7yibIPTtlMcnb2N6YMrc3geb1KlYLfSPNJjs0xgyCJ9DINy0cG7fz5yvHI 3HKwI0nvc/A5h4zQAG7flKcijfoa5VKOcgD3E= Received: by 10.100.41.4 with SMTP id o4mr4049589ano.53.1242968261370; Thu, 21 May 2009 21:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gentoo-everex.local (cpe-72-185-51-230.tampabay.res.rr.com [72.185.51.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm3366802yxm.11.2009.05.21.21.57.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 21 May 2009 21:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A1630C1.8020508@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 00:57:37 -0400 From: Saphirus Sage User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090505) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] disable syanptics pad References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1e9c62a-8a51-4dbd-9b64-4bddd8718a17 X-Archives-Hash: f5267ce0fce2ec54b73f4ace31917ba1 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.