display and synaptics touchpad configuration

Hello community,

I want make two simple changes in my display (energy management) & synaptics touchpad configuration:

1.Prevent the display from turning off (getting black) after 1 minute. Of course I checked the energy management configuration, but that has no effect at all.

2.Turn touchpad tapping off. I read
Synaptics Touchpad - openSUSE,
but the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist, but only /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install (or is it the same?). Also, there is no section with “driver synaptics” in it. Its content is

Section “Device”
Identifier “vboxvideo”
Driver “vboxvideo”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “vboxvideo”
Device “vboxvideo”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “vmware”
Driver “vmware”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “vmware”
Device “vmware”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “cirrus”
Driver “cirrus”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “cirrus”
Device “cirrus”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “fbdev”
Driver “fbdev”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “fbdev”
Device “fbdev”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “vesa”
Driver “vesa”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “vesa”
Device “vesa”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout”
Screen “vboxvideo”
Screen “vmware”
Screen “cirrus”
Screen “fbdev”
Screen “vesa”
EndSection

(I use OpenSuse 11.2 on a Nexoc Laptop.)
So what to do then?

Thanks for your advice.

Jason

For synaptics, see this post (and read the related posts):
Synaptics Multi-Touch - openSUSE Forums