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Turning off Taps

post #1 of 5
10/27/03 at 7:48pm
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I just installed Mandrake on my laptop and would like to know how to turn touchpad taps off. It thinks I am tapping too much and it causes too many problems...I would prefer to just use the mouse buttons. Anyone know how to turn it off? I have version 9.1 right now.
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post #2 of 5
10/28/03 at 11:36am

Synaptics Touchpad

Here is my section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "TrackPad"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "Buttons" "4"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "3 4"
# Option "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900"
# Option "Finger" "25 30"
# Option "MaxTapTime" "20"
# Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
# Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
# Option "Repeater" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Pretty obvious from there. Check this file on your machine, comment or uncomment options and restartx. Hope that helps.
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post #3 of 5
10/30/03 at 2:43am
you can also use the program tpconfig to turn the taps off. i forget where to get it; it should pop up on google though.
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post #4 of 5
10/30/03 at 11:30am
whats in your /dev/input/mouse0 directory?
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post #5 of 5
10/30/03 at 6:08pm
/dev/input/mouse0 is a file not a directory - it is the character device file associated with mice - on my 5680 I have two - one for the usb mouse and one for the pad. I also have a /dev/usb/usbmouse file. This is different for older kernels which I believe just had a /dev/mouse. The new 2.6 kernels uses a slightly difference devfs.
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