Below is a conversation between Chuck Stuettgen and myself. We both have had a problem on different laptops of not being able to turn off the touchpad. I know that in some other distoros this does work....turn it off in KDE and it's "gone." But, in both 10.3 and 11.0 this doesn't work in Yast nor KDE. Check found a work-around so I'm posting it here just in case someone else has the same problem. Fred On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 00:22 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
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Can you send me your xorg.conf file? I'll compare it to mine and see if I can see anything obvious. Also can you run synclient -l (that's an lowercase L) and send me the output?
Sure.
# synclient -l Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
This is one of the things that really should *just work*. I have been able to use synclient to disable the touchpad on four different laptops since as far back as Suse 9.1.
Well, there's a LOT of changes in 11.0.....even in scripts we normally see, like no bash config. in your /home/?/ dir., nor .profile file. This may be 11.0 "thing." I don't have 10.3 running on this laptop so I can't check to see if I could manage to turn it off or not.
Fred
Fred, I just finished installing RC1 on a spare laptop. The xorg.conf on fresh install also has two entries for the touchpad. I would have to say that is an installation bug. But since it is not referenced anywhere else it should not cause you any problems leaving it in the conf file. However, the ServerLayout section in my install does have the missing line for the Mouse[3] InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" When I tried both the synclient -l and synclient touchpadoff=1 commands they both worked. I believe if you just add the missing line to the ServerLayout section you should be good to go. Let me know how it goes. -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org