Re: synaptics issues while typing
On Sunday 28 January 2007 08:06, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Hello again everybody,
>
> everything is working fine now but for one incredibly annoying thing -
> accidentally touching the touchpad while typing! I've read up on it and
> tried two things in the 'synaptics section' of the xorg.conf file.
>
> 1. added: "SHMConfig" "on". Syndaemon still said that shared memory was
> unavailabel.
>
> 2. added "TouchpadOff" "1" , as I hate touchpads in general and always use
> an external mouse. The touchpad was still enabled.
>
> Obviously I restarted X after each change. My machine is an iBook G3
> 700MHz, 12" model.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Is there a kernel
> option to disable synaptics? I know how to re-compile and install kernels,
> so this is not a problem.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ananda
On a self compiled kernel. Make a removable module of appletouch witch lies
under USB.
On debian stocks just remove the loaded appletouch module
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