Synaptics

[KAYVEN RIESE]

I have a USB mouse and I want to disable my touchpad.

I am going to resend my post, I had originally posted to
"freebsd-hardware" but now I am going to post to
"freebsd-hackers"

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Giulio Ferro wrote:

> Donnie wrote:
>> On Dec 12, 10:51 am, Giulio Ferro <au... at zirakzigil.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Unfortunately those settings are already specified in /e
>>> tc/X11/xorg.conf in the
>>> section "InputDevice" for thetouchpad.
>>> 
>>> If you look in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/synaptics/pkg-message it's all
>>> already there
>>> 
>> 
>> I had the same problem, but finally happened on this solution:
>> despite what the pkg-message says, in xorg.conf you have to specify
>> both a non-existent mouse and the touchpad, in addition to following
>> all the other pkg-message directions.  So, my xorg.conf has:
>> 
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
>>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>>         InputDevice    "Synaptics_Touchpad" "CorePointer"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> ### Note that touchpad MUST be CorePointer and non-existent mouse must
>> be AlwaysCore ###
>> 
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
>> 	Driver      "mouse"
>> 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
>> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>   Identifier  	"Synaptics_Touchpad"
>>   Driver  	"synaptics"
>>   Option	"SendCoreEvents"
>>   Option	"Device"  	"/dev/psm0"
>>   Option	"Protocol"	"psm"
>>   Option	"TouchpadOff"   "0"
>>   Option	"LeftEdge"      "1700"
>>   Option	"RightEdge"     "5300"
>>   Option	"TopEdge"       "1700"
>>   Option	"BottomEdge"    "4200"
>>   Option	"FingerLow"	"25"
>>   Option	"FingerHigh"	"30"
>>   Option	"MaxTapTime"	"180"
>>   Option	"MaxTapMove"	"220"
>>   Option	"VertScrollDelta" "100"
>>   Option	"MinSpeed"	"0.06"
>>   Option	"MaxSpeed"	"0.06"
>>   Option	"AccelFactor"	"0.0010"
>>   Option	"HorizScrollDelta"	"100"
>>   Option        "UpDownScrolling"       "on"
>>   Option        "UpDownRepeat"          "on"
>>   Option        "LeftRightScrolling"    "on"
>>   Option        "LeftRightRepeat"       "on"
>>   Option	"SHMConfig"	"on"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> 
>> --
>> Donnie
>> 
>
>
> Doesn't work, sorry. The server starts, but the mouse pointer isn't moving.
>
> Anyway I'm not sure this is the right way to do thinks. I'd dearly like to 
> listen from
> the maintainer, maybe it can shed some light on the /dev/input/event issue...
>
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