disabling touchpad
pkajak
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,
Regards,
PKajak
Dan C
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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pkajak
> 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.
>
>
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Sat May 26
01:04:16 PDT 2007
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl02"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
EndSection
wrha...@comcast.net
> 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.
Bud
Dan C
> 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.
Dan C
> Unfortunately didn't work.
Well, dunno. Worked for me.
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.
ilSimo
<g4srse$37n$1...@news2.task.gda.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
I would have suggested to install ksynaptics, but it seems its development
is stopping, but take a look here anyway:
http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/index.html
ilSimo
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Jim Diamond
> 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?
I don't have any problems with mine since I disabled the mouse clicks
on my touchpad, so maybe my solution would work for you too. I found
a fairly recent version of the synaptics driver at
http://www.paldo.org/index-section-packages-page-main-releaseid-99761.html
After compiling synaptics_drv.so and copying it to
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so, add this to your xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "ALPS Rat"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.1"
Option "BottomEdge" "600" # zsd was 650
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "6" # zsd was 2
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" # zsd was 20
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "LeftEdge" "140" # zsd was 120
Option "MaxSpeed" "1" # zsd was "0.5"
Option "MaxTapMove" "0" # zsd was "110"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0" # zsd was "180"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3" # zsd was "0.2"
Option "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "0" # zsd was 20
EndSection
I have my ServerLayout section as follows:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "ALPS Rat" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "PS2 mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "USB mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
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 :-)
Cheers.
Jim
Maxle...@gmail.com
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 .
Robby Workman
Why not suggest something that is actually done *for* Slackware?
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/system/synaptics/
-RW