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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

disable touchpad without synaptics driver

i used hwd to set up my xorg.conf. there is no section for a synaptics touchpad, so i guess hwd didn't detect it. however, the stupid, little bugger is still working. i want a simple way to shut the damn thing off. it's seems insane to install the synaptics driver, then gsynaptics just to get it to stop working (it's like paying someone to stop punching you in the face).

Brute

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From: Europe/Paris

Registered: 2006-06-17

Posts: 31

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Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

What does your xorg.conf looks like ?

You should be able to disable it by removing the correponding line in "ServerLayout" section :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Touchpad0" "CorePointer" # <- line to remove
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Touchpad0"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "corepointer"
    <snip>
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

It should make the trick...

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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

What does your xorg.conf looks like ?

You should be able to disable it by removing the correponding line in "ServerLayout" section

here's what my "server layout" section looks like ...

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"

EndSection

would it be that core pointer thing? and, if so, would i comment it out with a #, @ or !, if it were?

Brute

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From: Europe/Paris

Registered: 2006-06-17

Posts: 31

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Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

here's what my "server layout" section looks like ...

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

would it be that core pointer thing? and, if so, would i comment it out with a #, @ or !, if it were?

You should also have a section "InputDevice" with some information about this "usb mouse". But if you only have your touchpad and no mouse plugged in, then commenting the line (with a #) is ok :

        #InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"

You really don't want a mouse ?

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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

here's what my "server layout" section looks like ...

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

would it be that core pointer thing? and, if so, would i comment it out with a #, @ or !, if it were?

You should also have a section "InputDevice" with some information about this "usb mouse". But if you only have your touchpad and no mouse plugged in, then commenting the line (with a #) is ok :

        #InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"

You really don't want a mouse ?

oh no, i have a mouse plugged in. i just run into trouble when typing and leaning around the touchpad.

matryc

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From: krakow.pl

Registered: 2008-06-26

Posts: 8

Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

If you want to disable touchpad, just try to do it from BIOS settings.
At my BIOS I have an option: Touchpad [automatic/disable] at Keyboard/Mouse section. This will do the trick without any drivers installed

But I think that better is to install synaptics driver, and start X with touchpad option: "TouchpadOff" "1" and use gsynaptics to enable it whenever you like.
Your choice. Bye.

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: disable touchpad without synaptics driver

If you want to disable touchpad, just try to do it from BIOS settings.
At my BIOS I have an option: Touchpad [automatic/disable] at Keyboard/Mouse section. This will do the trick without any drivers installed

But I think that better is to install synaptics driver, and start X with touchpad option: "TouchpadOff" "1" and use gsynaptics to enable it whenever you like.
Your choice. Bye.

ooooooooooooooooooooooh, the BIOS! i never thought of that. thanks.