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Re: udev question



On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:09:31AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> [...]
> | i want to DISABLE the touchpad when the usb mouse is plugged in.
> 
> Oh.  I don't know how to do that as I've never tried (and never wanted
> to).  I think some BIOSes support that (at least for PS/2 mice).
> Sorry I can't help with this.
> 


If you are using the touchpad driver in xfree86-driver-synaptics you can use
the synclient program to disable and enable the touchpad:

$ synclient TouchPadOff=[0|1]

Work this into a hotplug script and you should be good to go.

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