synaptics touchpad + mouse taps = trouble

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

David Horn wrote:
> I currently have a laptop running FreeBSD 8/Stable RC1 r197621 (amd64)
> that happens to have a synaptics touchpad.  On this particular
> laptop(Inspiron 1520), the placement of the touchpad means that I will
> inevitably accidentally hit it while typing, and I have found that I
> always need to disable the "mouse taps" in order to have the touchpad
> usable for me.

I have an Inspiron 1525.  After struggling with this for a long time, I 
found that the following entry in /etc/rc.conf did the trick

moused_flags="-3 -m 11=4 -A 2"

It is the "-m 11=4" that did it.  On my computer, it isn't really a 
"synaptics" touchpad, but some other brand.

Hopefully it will work for you.

Stephen