eeePC - disabling tap

[Dan Langille]

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Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 5/16/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/16/09, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
>>>>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/16/09, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 18:59, Dan Langille wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Folks: I wish to disable the tap feature[1] for the touchpad on an
>>>>>>>> EeePC
>>>>>>>> 1000HE.  Does anyone know how to do that?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1] - when you tap the touchpad, you select or double click on an
>>>>>>>> object.  We don't want that.  :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - --
>>>>>>>> Dan Langille
>>>>>>> quite the opposite, I'd like to enable tap on mine, turion based asus
>>>>>>> notebook. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> just waiting for the answer to do the opposite :)
>>>>>> How is your touchpad detected?
>>>>>> Maybe you need to use X11 synaptic driver(guessing).
>>>>> Following up.... reading http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee under "Touchpad
>>>>> (synaptics) configuration" it says:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Disable moused in rc.conf
>>>>> - Add hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 to loader.conf
>>>>> - pkg_add -r synaptics and edit Xorg.conf according to synaptic's
>>>>> pkg-message
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the package information is out of date.  I see no synaptics
>>>>> package.  Likely candidates include:
>>>>>
>>>>>   x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics
>>>>>   x11/libsynaptics
>>>>>   x11/gsynaptics
>>>>>
>>>>> Only the latter seems to have a pkg-message.  I tried that.  It (and
>>>>> about 50 other packages) installed cleanly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I altered the mouse input device in /etc/X11/xorg/conf:
>>>>>
>>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>>>> #       Driver      "mouse"
>>>>>         Driver      "synaptics"
>>>>>         Option      "SHMConfig"             "on"
>>>>>
>>>>>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>>>>>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>>>>>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>
>>>>> and made the changes contained
>>>>> within/usr/ports/x11/gsynaptics/pkg-message:
>>>>>
>>>>> - /etc/rc.conf
>>>>> - /boot/loader.conf
>>>>> - downside of that is I get no cursor on the console
>>> In console mouse can only work via moused(8) & sysmouse(4) combination
>>> using syscons(4).
>>> Probbably psm(4) could have sysctl "tapping_disabled" feature implemented
>>> for synaptics case.
>>>
>>>>> reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see this output from sysctl:
>>>>>
>>>>> hw.psm.synaptics.directional_scrolls: 1
>>>>> hw.psm.synaptics.low_speed_threshold: 20
>>>>> hw.psm.synaptics.min_movement: 2
>>>>> hw.psm.synaptics.squelch_level: 3
>>>>>
>>>>> I ran gsynaptics and unchecked "enable tapping".  I can still tap.
>>>>> Restarted X.  Can still tap.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if the init process is failing, because if I run this from the
>>>>> console, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ gsynaptics-init
>>>>>
>>>>> (gsynaptics-init:1097): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> Interesting bits from /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> 
> (II) No default mouse found, adding one
> (**) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
> 
> 
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.99.3
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> (**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Query no Synaptics: 000000
> (--) Mouse0: no supported touchpad found
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Mouse0: always reports core events
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: TOUCHPAD)
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
> Query no Synaptics: 000000
> (--) Mouse0: no supported touchpad found
>>> It looks to me that HAL is doing its job :)
>>>
>>>

> Well I tried it myself and it works(more or less), I dont like
> touchpad precision ...

> add "hw.psm.synaptics_support=1" to /boot/loader.conf and reboot, (oh
> why this is not plug and play
> , should be reported as bug, so that rebooting is not required)

> install xf86-input-synaptics, disable moused, and edit xorg.conf(mine
> is with HAL disabled during compile):

> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier "Mouse1"
>  Driver "synaptics"
>  Option "Protocol" "psm"
>  Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
>  Option "TouchpadOff" "2"
> EndSection

> Now only replace Mouse0 with Mouse1 in your xorg.conf in right Section ;)

> Dunno what HAL may do if you compiled Xorg with it,
> in that case you should have xorg.conf completly removed....
> and HAL should be smart enough to do this on its own way.

> Going to undo this soon ... I prefer sysmouse(4)/moused(4) combo.

I can confirm, this disables the touch pad.  :)

Perhaps I should just buy my mother an external mouse.

- --
Dan Langille

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