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 1MCD6A-0007uY-Sk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:35:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDB6F1C015; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96081C015 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591EF64EE2 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.958 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.958 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.641, 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 iECEfmRiwgvQ for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:35:07 +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 7DDA1667EF for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MCD5y-0006tq-Ka for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +0000 Received: from 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 13:35:02 +0000 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +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 13:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <58965d8a0905211139r71da0f0l3a7ab25de5ca4d79@mail.gmail.com> <200905230955.21185.michaelkintzios@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: 5ac540f8-0e3a-46ff-b2f8-7e95aed0ad59 X-Archives-Hash: 66a86ec06e75930ae9098a7aa74d9aa4 Mick gmail.com> writes: > This is from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi: > ================================================= > > > > > synaptics > true > type="string">true > type="string">true > 1 > 1 > > > > ================================================= thanks mick, Sorry for the delayed response. I only get sporadic access to this laptop. I'm going to research how to remove xorg.conf from a system completely. Once I do this, I'll give your suggestion a whirl and post to a new thread. thanks very much, James