I can't disable my touchpad again...
Linuxguy123
linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 16:17:15 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 10:01 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 21:13 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:15 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:54 -0500, Bob Barrett wrote:
> >
> > I find that a heavy handed approach for the problem at hand. Its time
> > for either the touchpad button or ksynaptics to just work.
>
> I don't disagree. I'm just offering the suggestion for getting it
> working in the short run.
Thanks.
> Another message in the thread indicates that the ksynaptics issue may be
> a bug. In any case, I've seen some discussion about how to manage the
> SHMConfig issue in a sustainable way. So it is being worked on, AFAIK.
Could you share where you've seen this discussed and who is working on
the issue ?
> BTW, I don't see why modifying xorg.conf is any less "heavy handed" than
> creating /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi. You're just used to one
> and not the other.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I am experienced at modifying xorg.conf files.
Actually, I have also done some HAL rules as well.
> But neither should be necessary; there should be a
> user-accessible configuration tool to do whatever is required.
Agreed.
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