Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10
fred smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Feb 17 17:55:28 UTC 2009
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:18:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:08 -0700, Linux Media wrote:
> > >>>>>>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List
> > >>>>>>> Archives. 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?
> >
> > >>>>>> 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.
> > > ----
> > > by default, F10 does not have an xorg.conf file and it may not be useful
> > > to create one...I surely wouldn't create one just for Synaptics.
> > >
> > > You should be more careful with advice.
> > >
> > > Craig
> >
> > We're on the same page here Craig. In the original Post, I was concerned
> > about creating an xorg.conf file in case it tripped up the new method of
> > doing things.
> >
> > But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the
> > "SHMConfig" "on" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then using Synaptics?
> ----
> I believe that executing 'synclient TouchpadOff=1' should do
> that...without an xorg.conf but having something
> like /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi above (I think I omitted the
> 'policy' directory
To go back to my posting earlier in the thread, running synclient results
in an error message about SHMConfig not existing.
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