[B]Touchpad Madness!!! Dell XPS1330[/B]

English Hardware
#1

Hello to All, Cannot turn off this ridiculous touchpad.
Who ever invented it should be roasted over a slow fire and let every laptop user driven crazy by him/her baste them in favorite barbecue sauce, while they scream bloody murder!!!

Seriously though,

I read every thread in a search for Touchpad/Mouse/Synaptics problems but nothing worked for me.

DellXPSM1330 openSUSE 11.1 KDE 3.5 is my system.

I tried the…

rpm -qa --last > installed-rpms.txt

came up with…


mousepad-0.2.14-1.16
yast2-mouse-2.16.1-19.119
gsynaptics-0.9.14-64.14
x11-input-synaptics-0.15.2-5.23

I have heard the x11 stuff is experimental and troublesome.
When I go into yast>Hardware>Mouse Model
disabling the touchpad and reboot does nothing.

I hope I have given all needed information.

I just want to be able to turn this touchpad OFF when a USB mouse is plugged in, which is almost always.

Thanks for your help in advance,
Chetanji

#2

I went into Yast>Hardware>Mouse Model in KDE 3.5

and unactivated the USB optical mouse which was # 2 mouse.

I then logged out/logged in with USB mouse not working.

Then I went back into Yast and reactivated the mouse.

Logging out/logging in brought the USB mouse back into play.

Then I typed as root…

synclient TouchpadOff=1

prompt came back this time with no errors.

The Touch pad is off for this session.

I don’t understand what happened, but the synclient TouchpadOff=1 command never worked before in terminal.

From what I’ve learned from OldCPU, having too many repos or different programs may cause conflicts.

I have gnome and KDE4 with a few other desktops as options to boot into.

Someone tell me what is recommended for a work situation where I am not playing around or experimenting with different desktops.
I am simply trying to find one that works and is boom-boom knock on the table SOLID!!
Right now that seems to be KDE 3.5

Is is recommended to remove the other GUI’s?

Would removing all extra gui’s and programs associated with them a very good move???

Your help is much appreciated,
Blessings,
Chetanji;)

#3

synclient TouchpadOff=1

Hello,

This works only for a session.

How to make the touch pad off permanently?

Thanks in advance.-

#4

urususe wrote:
>> synclient TouchpadOff=1
>
> Hello,
>
> This works only for a session.
>
> How to make the touch pad off permanently?
>
> Thanks in advance.-

Does /etc/X11/xorg.conf have a line containing MaxTapTime? If so, set
the value to “0”. It likely has “180” now.

#5

Install ‘touchfreeze’ from Packman. It’ll give you all you need to deal with the TP madness. Just run a first time and configure to needs.

#6

Install ‘touchfreeze’ from Packman. It’ll give you all you need to deal with the TP madness. Just run a first time and configure to needs.

Thank you, I’ll try!

#7

Does not works, this command ( touchfreeze ) just activate the touch pad.

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty.

Another way?

#8

Couldn’t you just set
[touchpad_enabled] TRUE

to
[touchpad_enabled] FALSE

in /etc/gpm/syn.conf?

#9

Couldn’t you just set
[touchpad_enabled] TRUE

to
[touchpad_enabled] FALSE

in /etc/gpm/syn.conf?

Done,
Thank you.-

#10

Couldn’t you just set
[touchpad_enabled] TRUE

to
[touchpad_enabled] FALSE

in /etc/gpm/syn.conf?

Works for a session but not permanently.

#11

I guess you already tried disable it in Yast->Hardware->Mouse Model?

#12

By default is disabled.

#13

I’d also like to disable the touchpad (without hacking some system config files!!!) but i don’t even have a mouse option in yast. Only some “Mouse in textconsole” in the hardware section, but that doesn’t help me at all.
Touchbad, trackpoint and my bluetooth mouse are listed in the hardware information in yast, but i can’t do anything there either…