Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

  Unfortunate that no one seems to know how to disable my touch pad with Fedora.

  I resorted to hardware patching, literally: I cut a piece of
corrugated cardboard and taped it over the touch pad. It looks funny,
but at least I can now use my laptop without having to correct the
effects of unwanted clicks every two minutes or so. Maybe I will paint
the cardboard black at some point.

     Take care
     Oliver

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>     Hello Rick,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2011 10:27 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>>      Hello,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Â I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even
>>>> offers a driver for that for Ubuntu, as a gzipped tarball. I suppose
>>>> all I need is a MutliTouch driver for F15. I already found one for
>>>> F13, but it conflicts with my system.
>>>
>>>   While the specs on the Dell website called it "MultiTouch", when I
>>> installed all the drivers on Windows, it says there the manufacturer
>>> is Alps Electric. Where can I get a functioning driver for that one?
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> The ALPS touchpad works with the Synaptics driver.  You can edit your
>> xorg.conf file and enable the SHMConfig option
>>
>>        Option "SHMConfig" "true"
>
>  I added that line in my xorg.conf (attached) under the section that
> said "mouse"
>
>> and use the synclient program to poke it.  Or use the stuff I told you
>> about earlier in this thread.
>
>  synclient still says:
>
> Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
>
>  yum says I have this package installed:
>
> xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.x86_64
>  1.4.0.901-1.fc15                                       @fedora
>
>  The only packages yum finds that match "*synapt*" are the above and
> the related *-devel package.
>
>  What next? Thanks!
>
>     Take care
>     Oliver
>
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