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 pointer movement.For disabling, I'm not sure, as I don't have access to a system w/ synaptics on it (until I get home, but that's about 8 hours away yet...), but, after emerging the xf86-input-synaptics driver, and looking at the man page (man synaptics), I see theOption "TouchpadOff" "integer"option - if you set this to "1", then the touchpad is disabled, so I would add in a section for the device in your xorg.conf file, something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/<whatever-it-is - you can find out by doing "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" and looking at the "Handlers" line>" Option "TouchpadOff" "1" EndSectionHTH--James Sorry for the delay, I only get access to this laptop, on a sporadic basis. This did not work for me. thanks, James
