eeePC - disabling tap

[Dan Langille]

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Dan Langille wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 5/16/09, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 18:59, Dan Langille wrote:
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>>>> Folks: I wish to disable the tap feature[1] for the touchpad on an EeePC
>>>> 1000HE.  Does anyone know how to do that?
>>>>
>>>> [1] - when you tap the touchpad, you select or double click on an
>>>> object.  We don't want that.  :)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> Dan Langille
>>> quite the opposite, I'd like to enable tap on mine, turion based asus
>>> notebook. :)
>>>
>>> just waiting for the answer to do the opposite :)
>> How is your touchpad detected?
>> Maybe you need to use X11 synaptic driver(guessing).
> 
> Following up.... reading http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee under "Touchpad
> (synaptics) configuration" it says:
> 
> - Disable moused in rc.conf
> - Add hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 to loader.conf
> - pkg_add -r synaptics and edit Xorg.conf according to synaptic's
> pkg-message
> 
> I think the package information is out of date.  I see no synaptics
> package.  Likely candidates include:
> 
>   x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics
>   x11/libsynaptics
>   x11/gsynaptics
> 
> Only the latter seems to have a pkg-message.  I tried that.  It (and
> about 50 other packages) installed cleanly.
> 
> I altered the mouse input device in /etc/X11/xorg/conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> #       Driver      "mouse"
>         Driver      "synaptics"
>         Option      "SHMConfig"             "on"
> 
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> and made the changes contained within/usr/ports/x11/gsynaptics/pkg-message:
> 
> - /etc/rc.conf
> - /boot/loader.conf
> - downside of that is I get no cursor on the console
> 
> reboot.
> 
> I see this output from sysctl:
> 
> hw.psm.synaptics.directional_scrolls: 1
> hw.psm.synaptics.low_speed_threshold: 20
> hw.psm.synaptics.min_movement: 2
> hw.psm.synaptics.squelch_level: 3
> 
> I ran gsynaptics and unchecked "enable tapping".  I can still tap.
> Restarted X.  Can still tap.
> 
> I wonder if the init process is failing, because if I run this from the
> console, I get:
> 
> $ gsynaptics-init
> 
> (gsynaptics-init:1097): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Interesting bits from /var/log/Xorg.0.log


(II) No default mouse found, adding one
(**) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"


(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.99.3
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Query no Synaptics: 000000
(--) Mouse0: no supported touchpad found
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: TOUCHPAD)
(**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Mouse0: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Mouse0: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Mouse0: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
Query no Synaptics: 000000
(--) Mouse0: no supported touchpad found



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