Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

[phil]

Linux Media wrote:
> 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
>  >
>  > then use synclient to disable tapping
> 
> I copied:
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi
> to:
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
> and edited the line to enable SHMConfig.
> 
> When running 'synclient' -h (or -l), I get...
> 
> 'Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?'
> 
> Please, if anyone could help with this. It's making 
> learning/configuring/using a whole new system so much harder when things 
> keep opening up because of unwanted mouse taps.
> 
> If I used the  'Paste Bin' correctly, here are the contents of 
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi...
> 
> http://fpaste.org/paste/3873
> 
use my 10-synaptics from here >> http://fpaste.org/paste/3958

then reboot your machine. then try synclient