several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Jun 27 14:57:36 UTC 2006
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> and this goddamned touchpad on this lappy cannot be disabled, so parts
>>> of the above line got overwritten when it decided to move the cursor
>>> without bothering to advise me. If someone can advise me on howto
>>> disable it, I'll send them a jug of a local wine we think is pretty good
>>> for a commodity wine.
>>
>> My procedure involves a set of screw drivers and an Xacto knife. Do, I
>> still get the wine? :-)
>>
>> Ed
>>
> If it works!
(1) Check the BIOS. There may be a setting to enable/disable the touchpad
or the pointing stick.
(2) Try removing the syanptics RPM. I'm not sure what that leaves you
with, possibly a touchpad that moves the cursor but doesn't scroll or tap.
(3) See /usr/share/doc/synaptics*/ and man synaptics. (In particular,
check out the suggestively named TouchpadOff parameter.) If what bothers
you is accidental tapping when you are typing, man syndaemon.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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