Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems
On 12/23/2010 08:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote:
Apologies for the long post but it is along and sad story :)
I have been made sad by a Dell laptop or two. ;-)
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Maybe all the problems are related to my inabillity to disable the touchpad.
On this
syeX11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
(I pushed Cntl-C otherwise it would have been a few lines of these)
sorry, that was meant to be 'system X11 functions without
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.'
As you can see in the above line sometimes the keyboard misses a pressed
key ('sye' - must have been 'system') and sometimes it repeats keys. Other
times, like when I work in Emacs with more than one buffer in split windows,
the cursor jumps to another frame and the typing continues in another
buffer.
On my previous laptop (Thinkpad R61e) I could use the following to disable
the touchpad:
/usr/bin/synclient "TouchpadOff=\
`/usr/bin/synclient -l | sed -ne \
's/\(TouchpadOff *= *\)\([01]\)/\2/p' | sed -e 'y/01/10/'`"
Now when I try this I get 'Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics
driver loaded?'
I had the same sort of issue with a Dell Precision M70 laptop. The
answer was to change the touchpad setting in the BIOS setup program. The
wording on this one (which is actually a Lat. D810 or somesuch
motherboard / BIOS) I had to look at the boot behavior of the touchpad.
The choices weren't exactly what I would have expected. They were along
the lines of:
1. touchpad enabled
2. touchpad disabled when PS/2 mouse is connected
3. serial mouse
The one that succeeded in disabling the touchpad was the serial mouse
setting.
If you have a similar option for turning off the touchpad in your BIOS I
strongly suggest that you use it. That way, you won't have to use an
xorg.conf file and the OS doesn't have to deal with the little bugger at
all.
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Regards.
Johann
I hope that helps.
Gilbert
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