disabling touchpad on laptop

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:41, Trey Sizemore wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:52:19 -0500
>>[...]
>> Yes, it's not immediately apparent.  You need to go to KDE Control
>> Center -> Peripherals -> Touchpad.  All the settings can be enabled and
>> disabled from there.
>
> Unforch I neglected to say that yes it was, but its all ghosted because I
> apparently need to add an 'Option "UseShm" "true"' in my xorg.conf, but
> I've done that to no avail.  I think I might see the problem after some
> manpage reading, it seems that both Section InputDevice stanza's are
> claiming they are coredevice, and there's supposed to be only one.

I think the line you want is

         Option      "SHMConfig" "on"

or "true", or maybe other similar values.

>
> I'll check that the next time I boot it up as I spent the afternoon
> talking a buck out of his hide since he didn't need it anymore.  Its deer
> season here and the next door neighbor gave me a small buck last night.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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