[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-06-04 Thread James
James Ausmus james.ausmus at 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

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-06-04 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: This is from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi: = !-- touchpad -- device match key=info.capabilities contains=input.touchpad match key=info.product contains=SynPS/2

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread james
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I think you need to set corepointer=0 in the FDI file or something similar to that. Or if you're using xorg.conf point it to a specific mouse instead of /dev/mice or whatever the catch-all mouse device is. May be able to get rid of it

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James
Uwe keksvernichter at googlemail.com writes: Have you looked in the Bios? Somewhere around there should be an option to turn the touchpad completely off After booting, I'm pretty sure Linux just ignores the bios on most systems.? James

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James
Saphirus Sage saphirus497 at gmail.com writes: Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to load the driver. I'd suggest just #'ing out the whole InputDevice section

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Saphirus Sage saphirus497 at gmail.com writes: Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to