I know this is a very late response, but I just recently (as in about 30 minutes ago) disabled tap-to-click on my zv5000 after messing with it on and off for several months. Researching the problem indicated that setting the "MaxTapMove" setting for the touchpad in xorg.conf to "0" should disable tap-to-click. Well, this never worked for me. I finally found out why. I'm not sure how far you have gotten into trying to get this to work, so I'll just share my whole experience below:
First, if you are using a kernel before 2.6.11, then you may need a patch that comes with the Synaptics driver specifically for disabling tap-to-click. With the Synaptics driver, there is a file called README.alps, which has the patch. I believe some places on the web said you may need to apply the patch even on post 2.6.11 kernels as well. Anyway, I am running 2.6.14, and I tried to apply the patch, but it wouldn't do so cleanly, so I left it alone. I had previously set up xorg.conf for both the touchpad and an external USB mouse. Little did I know that the touchpad must have been picking up the USB mouse configuration, because if I commented it out, the touchpad stopped working. So no wonder the MaxTapTime setting never worked!!! Anyway, most places I found suggested that you set the Protocol option for the touchpad to "auto-dev" or just "auto" in xorg.conf. For some reason, when I did this, the touchpad would not work. Looking through the X log file, it was setting the device to /dev/input/event1, even if I specified something else as the device. Anyway, through cat'ing both /dev/input/event1 and /dev/input/event2, it looked like the touchpad was really event2. I found somewhere on the web where they set the protocol to "event", so I gave that a try with the device manually set to event2. And wouldn't you know it, it worked and tap-to-click was disabled (MaxTapTime still had to be set to "0"). Anyway, I'm no expert, so maybe I didn't do it right, but I finally have tap-to-click disabled. Hope I haven't been to pedantic. Like I said, I'm not sure how far you have gotten. If anyone would like to see my xorg.conf, just let me know. Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 20:12 -0500, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > Ah yes I forgot about that button. The problem with that is that I > don't want the touchpad to turn off completely. I just want to > disable the tap option. > > I.E. If I tap the touchpad is simulates a mouse click. Sometimes > when my I'm typing and my palm brushes over it, it simulates a mouse > click. This means that text that is supposed to look like: > > Hi, how you doing? > > Looks like: > > hi hodoing? wyou Jonathan Ard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
