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 relating to the > synaptics pad, and running emerge -C synaptics or emerge -C > xf86-input-synaptics, depending on which driver you're using. That > should completely remove your ability to use the synaptic touch pad. Hmmmm, Nothing with the word "synaptics" (or either of the packages you mentioned) is installed. I do have a left over, bloated xorg file, so I'll first just delete the line with the (#) symbol, but, I thought that was the way to deactivate entries. Looking in xorg.conf.examples did not reveal any sort of useful infor Maybe somebody could post a minimal xorg.conf, or a url to some examples? One additional bit of information. The synaptics pad, when touched, makes the mouse(cursor) go crazy in a radom-noise-movement sort of pattern. When I stop touching the synaptics pad and use the external usb mouse, cursor movement becomes normal as expected. ideas? James
