Found this: xsetpointer -c "OLPC ALPS HGPK" xsetpointer +c "OLPC ALPS HGPK"
First one disables the touchpad, second one enables. And you don't need to be root. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Richard A. Smith <rich...@laptop.org>wrote: > > > supposed to be able to disable the touchpad. > > If that's the case, is there a neater way to do that? > > It obeys standard ps2 mouse commands. Send the controller a 0xA7 and it > will disable the output stream. > > http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2keyboard > > The mouse is the "Auxillary PS/2 device interface" > > Offhand I don't know the linux way of sending a command to the keyboard > controller from userspace but Xwindows does it so its possible. > > -- > Richard A. Smith <rich...@laptop.org> > One Laptop per Child > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Ing. Emiliano Pastorino LATU - Plan Ceibal Av. Italia 6201 CP: 11500, Montevideo, Uruguay Tel: (598 2) 601 5773 int.: 213
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