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 1MCD12-00073V-Nj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:29:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37CA5E059E; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12981E059E for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB5E667E0 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.957 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.957 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.642, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lEzgnZlLkc-T for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD396649A for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MCD0k-0006fq-Jv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:29:38 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:29:38 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:29:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4A1630C1.8020508@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090505 SeaMonkey/1.1.16) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5ad8af1f-5d0a-4e3d-af04-64302550c3c4 X-Archives-Hash: 86f72e388c0cc2d309f9dab62e338069 James Ausmus gmail.com> writes: > 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 theOption "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/" Option "TouchpadOff" "1" EndSectionHTH--James Sorry for the delay, I only get access to this laptop, on a sporadic basis. This did not work for me. thanks, James