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Eskat0n
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by Eskat0n Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:31 am
I have Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE Edition installed on Lenovo 3000 notebook equipped with ALPS touchpad.
But there are no special Fn- button to disable touchpad so using it with mouse isn't funny at all (especially then typing).
If it will be helpful there are output of
cat /proc/bus/input/devices command
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I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event1
B: EV=21
B: SW=1
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event4
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:08/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3f000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c526 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event7
B: EV=17
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143
B: MSC=10
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c526 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.1/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event8
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=837fff 2c3027 bf004444 0 0 1 f84 8a27c000 667bfa d9415fed 8e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=40
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10
I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event9
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event10
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse3 event11
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003
Is there are any way to completely disable touchpad?
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richyrich
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by richyrich Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:53 am
Something to try ?
Open the Package Manager, search for, and install
gpointing-device-settings
GUI tool for setting pointing devices. Currently it can configure mouse type
Hope this helps, richy
Eskat0n
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by Eskat0n Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:59 am
Solution above sounds good, but there are no such package in repositories.
richyrich
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by richyrich Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:03 pm
My bad ! I'm running Helena, sorry!
richyrich
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by richyrich Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:12 pm
It's called gsynaptics
Eskat0n
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by Eskat0n Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:55 pm
richyrich wrote: It's called gsynaptics
Thank you, richyrich. You make a great help advicing me to use gsynaptics.
I also need to mention that I had to enable SHMConfig for my touchpad by creating
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi file and adding following line:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
After reboot I run gsynaptics and finally disable this annoying touchpad.
Problem is solved =)
jamesteasdale
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by jamesteasdale Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:19 am
I have tried this fix and can not get it to work I still receive the error message