Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

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 >>>>>> [CUT]
>>>>>> All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over 
>>>>>> and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all 
>>>>>> works. And all I got was fragmented pieces of information from my 
>>>>>> research. I would like to adhere to the new approach to configuring 
>>>>>> hardware. I'm assuming that creating an xorg.conf file just confuses 
>>>>>> things and doesn't address the new way of doing things.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, so does anyone know how to correctly edit an FDI file to disable 
>>>>>> mouse taps (and which file)? Or is there a better way?
 >>>>>> [CUT]

>>>>> follow the instructions here
>>>>>
>>>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814

>>>> You don't need to do any of that.   All you need to do is:
>>>>
>>>> a) yum install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
>>>> b) synclient TouchpadOff=1

>>> I'm not the OP, but I tried that on my F10 system (eeepc 901, in case
>>> it makes any difference) and all uses of synclient (except for a bare
>>> "synclient" results in:
>>>
>>>     Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
>>>
>>> I don't find anything named SHMConfig, and neither rpm -a, nor 
>>> "yum list availbale" turns it up.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?

>> cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \
>>  /etc/hal/fdi/11-synaptics.fdi
>>
>> edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in the thread appropriate
>> section for your touchpad (you can discover which touchpad section by
>> 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices') and reboot

> NO, NO, NO !  Sheesh !
> 
> SHMConfig is a setting in the xorg.conf file.
> 
> Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make the synaptics parts of it look like
> this:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Default Layout"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"   
> EndSection
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
>         Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> You'll need to restart X (reboot ?) for these changes to take place.
> You might want to back up your present xorg.conf before making these
> changes. 
> 
> LG

Yeah, appearently doing...
synclient -l | less
will show all the options you can put in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I 
have...
Option    "TouchpaddOff" "2"
This makes it the default setting, but I can still do...
synclient TouchpadOff=0
to turn it on again.

Rocco