Hello, Unfortunate that no one seems to know how to disable my touch pad with Fedora. I resorted to hardware patching, literally: I cut a piece of corrugated cardboard and taped it over the touch pad. It looks funny, but at least I can now use my laptop without having to correct the effects of unwanted clicks every two minutes or so. Maybe I will paint the cardboard black at some point. Take care Oliver On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Rick, > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 11/11/2011 10:27 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Â I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even >>>> offers a driver for that for Ubuntu, as a gzipped tarball. I suppose >>>> all I need is a MutliTouch driver for F15. I already found one for >>>> F13, but it conflicts with my system. >>> >>> While the specs on the Dell website called it "MultiTouch", when I >>> installed all the drivers on Windows, it says there the manufacturer >>> is Alps Electric. Where can I get a functioning driver for that one? >>> Thanks! >> >> The ALPS touchpad works with the Synaptics driver. You can edit your >> xorg.conf file and enable the SHMConfig option >> >> Option "SHMConfig" "true" > > I added that line in my xorg.conf (attached) under the section that > said "mouse" > >> and use the synclient program to poke it. Or use the stuff I told you >> about earlier in this thread. > > synclient still says: > > Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded? > > yum says I have this package installed: > > xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.x86_64 > 1.4.0.901-1.fc15 @fedora > > The only packages yum finds that match "*synapt*" are the above and > the related *-devel package. > > What next? Thanks! > > Take care > Oliver > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - >> - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - >> - - >> - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > > -- > Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist > Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org) > SBPAX: Turning Bio Knowledge into Math Models (http://www.sbpax.org) > http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org > -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org) SBPAX: Turning Bio Knowledge into Math Models (http://www.sbpax.org) http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines