I can't disable my touchpad again...

[Linuxguy123]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:05 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 12:11 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:54 -0500, Bob Barrett wrote:
> > > On my HP laptop, there's an on/off switch at the top of the mouse pad
> > > in the surrounding trim strip. It's hard to see, but I can feel it.
> > > 
> > > Your's may have a hardware switch, somewhere.
> > 
> > My laptop DOES have a hardware switch, but the OS isn't recognizing it.
> > I'd love to be able to control the on/off of my touchpad with the
> > switch.
> > 
> > I logged this as a bug back in October.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466016
> > 
> > Thus far it hasn't been acted on.
> ----
> this may (or may not) make you feel better...
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480573
> 
> I got the distinct impression that your report was acted upon and that
> he thought it was a hal issue.

I think the ksynaptics / synaptics driver version issue has been
resolved. I'm not entirely sure.  I used to have that problem and now it
appears to be gone.   If I could just figure out how to set up my
xorg.conf file to work with ksynaptics, I think it would work.