On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes
problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but
that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not
installed? What should be a sure fire way is to disable it in
BIOS. I do that, but it has no effect.
I've always eschewed the use of touchpads and trackpoints, using a
mouse instead. The BIOS setting has always worked to turn off the
annoying little gizmos for me.
Perhaps it worked for you because you turned both off. I'll give it
a try to see what happens.
I remember using something else a long time ago from the CLI:
$synclient TouchpadOff=1
This actually works! I put it into ~/.fluxbox/startup file, and it
works from there as well.
One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the
intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for
updating the microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely
possible that a fix in the microcode update is defeating your
attempt at turning the touchpad off in the BIOS. But that surely
would be a bug in the behavior of the microcode if it was changing
your deliberate settings in the BIOS.
Interesting, but I've no idea. Know nothing about intel-microcode,
iucode-tool, or an AMD equivalent (I'm running amd64).