How to disable touch pad

antartica99999 · #1 11th May 2008, 01:49 PM

Hi
I am having Sony Vaio VGN-NR110E laptop. I want to disable the touch pad. Can someone please help me out in doing so. I am using Fedora 8.

Thank You
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***glennzo*** · #2 11th May 2008, 02:00 PM

Look into gsynaptics. You can install it from the terminal with the command yum install gsynaptics. There will then be a menu item under System > Preferences > Hardware called Touchpad. When you run Touchpad for the first time you'll probably get an error message. You will need to add a line to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to the bottom of the section that looks like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
        Option      "SHMConfig" "True"       <--- Add this line
EndSection

Then you can run Touchpad again and use it to disable the touchpad. You may find that you need to log out and back in for settings to take effect.

dshaw256 · #3 11th May 2008, 03:30 PM

I hope gsynaptics works better under FC8 than it did on FC6 - it destroyed my touch pad until I uninstalled it. Maybe it was my hardware. Anyway.

After making the configuration change that glennzo specified, you can also switch the touch pad off with the command "synclient touchpadoff=1" and switch it back on with "synclient touchpadoff=0".

***glennzo*** · #4 11th May 2008, 03:40 PM

Hi dshaw256. Yes, gsynaptics is working well here on my Toshiba Satellite. I haven't noticed any trouble with it at all.

antartica99999 · #5 17th May 2008, 04:40 AM

Hi guys
Thanks for the replies. These settings work as long as I do not log out. Once I logout and login back the touch pad is activated again. Is there anyway to save those settings.

alukin · #6 18th May 2008, 07:47 PM

This trick does not work in Fedora 9. Anyone get a clue?

PS. Had to add this:

Quote:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
<------> InputDevice "Synaptics"
EndSection

jody · #7 20th May 2008, 08:19 PM

Hi

this also works under fedora 8 on acer aspire 7520
(touchpad remains disabled after restart)

jody

tadek · #8 21st May 2008, 07:46 PM

I found somewhere in forum:
in xorg.conf add in the section touchpad:
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
and then from terminal type:
synclient TouchpadOff=1
It works for one session in my ASUS A8J

mrunge · #9 4th June 2008, 08:29 PM

Sadly, synclient touchpadoff=1 does not work after suspend. Does someone else get this error? (This happens on a T43, Fedora 9)