I am a newbie to Linux. I have an HP Compaq nx6110 and just installed openSUSE 11, but the touchpad is so sensitive, that I keep selecting things when I don’t intend to. I could turn off the tap selection in Windows but the option isn’t available on the Yast hardware page for the mouse. I don’t want to use a mouse when mobile and the pad is unusable this sensitive.
I had the same problem but I have now sorted it out. Look for package “ksynaptics” if you are using kde or “gsynamptics” if gnome. Make sure it is installed. The look for the “Touch Pad” from the start menu - if you’ve just installed the above package then it will be under your “new applications” in the “applications” section. In the second tab labelled “Tapping” under “Emulation”, diselect “Enable tapping” and you should be fine!
Other way with, probably, different pros and cons: Disable tap click for touchpads
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I’ve downloaded the ‘gsynaptics’ package, and when run in Terminal, I can de-select the Tapping option, but whenever I re-boot, I have to go through the procedure again, as it has reset the option.
I went to the link provided by JopSway, which shows an edit to the ‘InputDevice’ lines in the ‘xorg.conf’ file. I tried it, but when I tried to save the correction, I got an error message to say that a backup of the original could not be created, and if I were to continue, data may be lost. As I am a complete novice with Linux, I decided not to continue.
I’ll just have to carry on making the alteration each time I boot up. I’ve managed to get ‘gsynaptics’ to auto-run on startup, although I’m not sure how I did it!:dont-know:
What you need to do is make the changes to the xorg.conf file as root user. Let me explain:
Open a terminal session then type “su”, you will then be prompted for a password, type in your root user password and press enter.
navigate to folder “/etc/X11/”
then type “kwrite xorg.conf”
make changes as described in link provided a few posts up and save file, you will not be given that error message anymore. But you will have to restart the X Server. That is done by holding the Ctrl + Alt buttons down, then hit Backspace twice.
I’ve been looking for this solution for a month and finally found it here, it works.
Hope it works for you!
Pete
Sorry to be a complete dunce, but having tried this, I can’t even navigate to the folder “etc/X11/”.
All I get is “bash: etc/X11/ is a directory” and I’m left in the ‘home/user’ command line.
How can I navigate to this directory, please?
To ‘navigate’ use cd that stands for change directory. You can use the ‘help’ command too every now and then 
Instead of navigating to it yo can just do: kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf