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.
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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?
Thanks,
Rocco
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