eeePC - disabling tap

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 5/16/09, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
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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 I think the package information is out of date.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

In console mouse can only work via moused(8) & sysmouse(4) combination
using syscons(4).
Probbably psm(4) could have sysctl "tapping_disabled" feature implemented
for synaptics case.

>>
>> 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

It looks to me that HAL is doing its job :)

> - --
> Dan Langille
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-- 
Paul