Open Suse 11.3 How to enable touchpad?
The Gnome and KDE desktop environments have their own graphical utilities. I’m a KDE user, so…
System Settings>>InputDevices>>Touchpad (There is a number of parameters that can be set from here)
The CLI commands to disable and enable are respectively
synclient TouchpadOff=1
synclient TouchpadOff=0
but I’m guessing your touchpad may not be functional (from install)…is that why you’re asking? (In which case, you may need a different approach/answer)
The ‘xinput’ utility can also be used to test or configure your touchpad (and other input devices)
To see input device list
xinput list
For example, I get
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
To test my touchpad, I could do
xinput test 10
then note output recorded as you tap and scroll etc
man xinput for more options.
In addition, to enable tapping before you load KDE or Gnome add
Option “TapButton1” “1”
to the options in synaptics.conf