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joker_hs

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From: Tempe, AZ

Registered: 2011-11-06

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Dell Inspiron N4030: udev detects touchpad as Generic PS/2.

Made a fresh install of Arch Linux couple of days ago.

Everything else works, but udev identifies my touch pad as a Generic PS/2 mouse instead of touch pad. Because of which its not using the installed synaptics driver.

I am basically unable to disable my touchpad using the synaptics driver. So instead I wrote a following udev rule which I picked from some googling:

ATTRS{name}=="PS/2 Generic Mouse", ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHPAD}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_MOUSE}=""

Now its disabled. But I am not sure how if I want to enable it on the fly, when my external mouse is not available etc.