I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it is really annoying when using keyboard.
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0200, pkajak wrote: > I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse > in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it > is really annoying when using keyboard.
> Thanks for all suggestions,
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following line:
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
to the appropriate "InputDevice" section, which is probably using the identifier "Mouse1".
Restart X.
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Dan C wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0200, pkajak wrote:
>> I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse >> in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it >> is really annoying when using keyboard.
>> Thanks for all suggestions,
> Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following line:
> Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
> to the appropriate "InputDevice" section, which is probably using the > identifier "Mouse1".
> Restart X.
Unfortunately didn't work.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Sat May 26 01:04:16 PDT 2007
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0200, pkajak wrote:
>> I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse >> in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it >> is really annoying when using keyboard.
>> Thanks for all suggestions,
> Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following line:
> Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
> to the appropriate "InputDevice" section, which is probably using the > identifier "Mouse1".
> Restart X.
He probably can turn the touchpad off using the BIOS setup as well.
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:35:13 -0500, wrhamblen wrote: > He probably can turn the touchpad off using the BIOS setup as well.
Depends. On newer laptops that I've seen (including this Sony I'm on), there are VERY limited options in the BIOS, and even that is not one of them. They have really dumbed-down the BIOS's since the arrival of Vista-crap. What I mean is that there really isn't *anything* that you can change in there any more.
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Only other thing I can think of is to look for anything in there that specifies a PS/2 port and disable it (probably by commenting out a line or two). I believe the touchpad things are connected via PS/2 internally.
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> I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse > in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it > is really annoying when using keyboard.
> Dan C wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0200, pkajak wrote:
>>> I have synaptics touchpad in my Asus C90 but I preffer to use USB mouse >>> in KDE. The problem is that I don't know how to turn off touchpad as it >>> is really annoying when using keyboard.
>>> Thanks for all suggestions,
>> Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following line:
>> Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
>> to the appropriate "InputDevice" section, which is probably using the >> identifier "Mouse1".
>> Restart X.
> Unfortunately didn't work.
Are you annoyed because you are inadvertently moving the mouse or because you are inadvertently generating mouse clicks?
You will need to change Keyboard1 to Keyboard0, of course, and you should be safe deleting the USB mouse line as well (I have an input device section for that as well). Oh yeah, change "PS2 Mouse" to "Mouse0" as well.
It should all "Just Work" (TM) for you, but if you try this and have any issues let me know, I may be able to help.
If it does, don't forget to try out the "circular scrolling", by touching your finger in the lower left corner of the touch pad and then moving it around clockwise (to scroll down) and counter-clockwise (to scroll up). Perhaps you will really like it, or perhaps you'll find something new to hate :-)
I suggest you install the synaptics driver,and it works on my Asus W3z. I find it in the source pool of debian,which is marked as xfree86- driver-synaptics_0.14.7~git20070706.orig.tar.gz. Read the INSTALL file ,then you will know how to .
On 2008-07-08, Maxleaf...@gmail.com <Maxleaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest you install the synaptics driver,and it works on my Asus > W3z. > I find it in the source pool of debian,which is marked as xfree86- > driver-synaptics_0.14.7~git20070706.orig.tar.gz. > Read the INSTALL file ,then you will know how to .
