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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred A. Miller wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Felix Möller wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > <snip>
> > > have a look at "man syndaemon" it is possible to deactivate the touchpad 
> > > while
> > > typing...
> > >
> > > @Stefan: Shouldn't this be configured automatically?
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Felix Möller
> > THANK YOU!!!
> >
> >      I have always wanted a way to do this to keep the cursor from jumping 
> > 1/2 page
> > in some direction due to an accidental brushing of the touchpad with the palm
> > of my thumb. It had just never bubbled up as a priority for me to track down.
> > It works just great:
> >
> > syndaemon -d -p /var/run/dcr/syndaemon.pid -K 
>
> 'Wish it did here!! I'd like to "kill" the sucker!! I don't like
> touchpads, never have, and never will! :(
>
> Fred

Fred,

        The only time I use the touchpad is when I have to. Any other time, I 
have my
lap-board that is just big enough for the laptop, a full-length wrist pad, and
a regular mousepad on the right. (Also room for a coaster and a scotch on
occasion) I don't know if this will do any good, but this is what I have for
the touchpad definition in my xorg.conf and the output from hwinfo. With both
Toshiba laptops I have, yast/sax has always configured the touchpad so it is
useable. The syndaemon was just the icing on the cake. Here are the files:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "Name" "Touchpad"
  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"
  Option       "Vendor" "Synaptics"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

        Looking at hwinfo, it shows:

45: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse
  UDI: 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input
  Hardware Class: mouse
  Model: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
  Vendor: 0x0002
  Device: 0x0007 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
  Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0003
  Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0)
  Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event2,
/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse,
/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse
  Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32)
  Driver Info #0:
    Buttons: 3
    Wheels: 0
    XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2
    GPM Protocol: exps2

        Evidently HAL takes care of loading/unloading the device just like any 
mouse.
If nothing else, maybe you could configure HAL not to load it?

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