Touchpad

[autek]

I use my laptop strictly as a desktop. I use my old TP A20 for travel. I have a problem with accidently hitting the touchpad. Is there any way to disable it ? I already tried xorg-conf, but that didn't turn it off. Ideas ??

Ed

[Lavene]

The only way I found to disable it on my laptop was in BIOS... wich was fine with me 'cause I hate the thing and rarely need it anyway.

Tina

[fos]

Touchpads drive me crazy. They never respond properly to the capacitance in my finger. I always disable them in bios and carry a real mouse.

fos....

[autek]

Well there is no "off" setting in the bios. Only choices are psaux or psaux/touchpad or serial mouse. I use a regular mouse as well and it annoys the crap out of me to look up at an email and see I hit the dumb thing and I'm typing somewhere but where I want to be. I don't understand why commenting it out in xorg didn't work. Debian just turns it back on no matter what the bios says and xorg just ignores the comment.

Ed

[autek]

Well here I go again answering my own question......google is my friend. Add this to xorg.conf in the "touchpad section"

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

In a terminal as user

synclient TouchpadOff=1

Thats it its off. The article said to use "0" to turn it back on. Worked like a charm.

HTH

Ed

[Lavene]

Well here I go again answering my own question......google is my friend. Add this to xorg.conf in the "touchpad section"

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

In a terminal as user

synclient TouchpadOff=1

Thats it its off. The article said to use "0" to turn it back on. Worked like a charm.

HTH

Ed

That's kinda funny... you actually need to turn "off" on... :tongue:

Tina