Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad
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).
With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic
one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But this
needs to be pursued in another thread.
Thanks, Jape
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