I use a Dell Inspiron N5110, which has one of those stupid Alps touchpads that, as far as I know, still doesn’t have a Linux-supported driver. What I’m wondering is 1. if there’s a satisfactory solution to this problem in openSUSE and 2. if not, how I can disable the touchpad. My background is in Kubuntu, so before I installed openSUSE, I would just run sudo modprobe -r psmouse to disable it. Ideas?
On Sun 24 Feb 2013 06:46:01 PM CST, AJRLegits wrote:
I use a Dell Inspiron N5110, which has one of those stupid Alps
touchpads that, as far as I know, still doesn’t have a Linux-supported
driver. What I’m wondering is 1. if there’s a satisfactory solution to
this problem in openSUSE and 2. if not, how I can disable the touchpad.
My background is in Kubuntu, so before I installed openSUSE, I would
just run -sudo modprobe -r psmouse- to disable it. Ideas?
Hi
I have a script in my home bin dir;
#!/bin/bash
enabled=`xinput --list-props "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" | grep -e "Device Enabled\ (129):\s*1"`
if -n "$enabled" ]; then
xinput --set-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 0
else
xinput --set-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 1
fi
You might need to modify by checking your xinput output.
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