several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 
>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> and this goddamned touchpad on this lappy cannot be disabled, so parts
>>>>> of the above line got overwritten when it decided to move the cursor
>>>>> without bothering to advise me.  If someone can advise me on howto
>>>>> disable it, I'll send them a jug of a local wine we think is pretty good
>>>>> for a commodity wine.
>>>> 
>>>> My procedure involves a set of screw drivers and an Xacto knife.  Do, I
>>>> still get the wine?  :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Ed
>>>> 
>>> If it works!
>> 
>> (1) Check the BIOS.  There may be a setting to enable/disable the touchpad 
>> or the pointing stick.
>
> This bios, if it went to the same school I did 66 years ago, would never 
> graduate to 2nd grade.  None of that stuff is in it.
>
>> (2) Try removing the syanptics RPM.  I'm not sure what that leaves you 
>> with, possibly a touchpad that moves the cursor but doesn't scroll or tap.
>
> That appears to be a dead end:
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# rpm -qa|grep synaptic
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]#
> [root at diablo 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]# man synaptics
> No manual entry for synaptics

Interesting.  Was this a fresh install or an upgrade?  Is the touchpad in 
fact a Synaptics?  Is it detected as such at boot or by X?

>
>> 
>> (3) See /usr/share/doc/synaptics*/ and man synaptics.  (In particular, 
>> check out the suggestively named TouchpadOff parameter.)  If what bothers 
>> you is accidental tapping when you are typing, man syndaemon.
>> 
> [root at diablo man syndaemon
> No manual entry for syndaemon

Sure, not if you don't have the synaptics package installed.

>
> Next?  :-)
> Should I install it just so I can disable it?  Seems counter intuitive, but

Stranger things have happened in this world of Linux.

> what the hey..  I have, but unless it takes a reboot, I can't find where to 
> start it.

Rebooting is simplest.

>
> Now there is a man syndaemon!   which sort of explains the changes to 
> xorg.conf, but not very well.  I also have one of the M$ little bluetooth 
> mice plugged into the usb port on the right edge of the machine.  That works 
> rather nicely.

syndaemon is only for the tapping-when-typing problem.  man synaptics or 
read the other docs for more controls.

>
> It would appear that livna is out of step with itself:
> nable to satisfy dependencies
> Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not 
> available.
> Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is not 
> available.
> Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
> Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
>
> Now to restart x and see how bad I screwed it up...



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 		Matthew Saltzman

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