several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Jun 28 09:54:22 UTC 2006
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This bios, if it went to the same school I did 66 years ago, would never
> graduate to 2nd grade. None of that stuff is in it.
>
>> (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.
>
> That appears to be a dead end:
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# rpm -qa|grep synaptic
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]#
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# man synaptics
> No manual entry for synaptics
Interesting. Was this a fresh install or an upgrade? Is the touchpad in
fact a Synaptics? Is it detected as such at boot or by X?
>
>>
>> (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.
>>
> [root at diablo man syndaemon
> No manual entry for syndaemon
Sure, not if you don't have the synaptics package installed.
>
> Next? :-)
> Should I install it just so I can disable it? Seems counter intuitive, but
Stranger things have happened in this world of Linux.
> what the hey.. I have, but unless it takes a reboot, I can't find where to
> start it.
Rebooting is simplest.
>
> Now there is a man syndaemon! which sort of explains the changes to
> xorg.conf, but not very well. I also have one of the M$ little bluetooth
> mice plugged into the usb port on the right edge of the machine. That works
> rather nicely.
syndaemon is only for the tapping-when-typing problem. man synaptics or
read the other docs for more controls.
>
> It would appear that livna is out of step with itself:
> nable to satisfy dependencies
> Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not
> available.
> Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not
> available.
> Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
> Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
>
> Now to restart x and see how bad I screwed it up...
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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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