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From: Martin Kraus on 6 Jul 2010 13:00
Hi. I've been running X without xorg for a year now to my complete
satisfaction. The only problem I have is a touchpad which I don't use and it
only gets in the way. I'm turning it off with xinput because the sl410 lenovo
I have doesn't allow to turn it off in bios as the ibm thinkpads I've owned
previously allowed.

The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having
it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the
keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do
this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by input layer and used
by xinput?

Also after resume/suspend the touchpad is enabled again and I have to manualy
turn it off.

thanks for any pointers
mk


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From: Arthur Machlas on 6 Jul 2010 13:40
> The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having
> it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the
> keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do
> this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by input layer and used
> by xinput?
>
> Also after resume/suspend the touchpad is enabled again and I have to manualy
> turn it off.

Haven't tried this in a while, as I'm using synclient now to do the
job, but used to do what you're talking about by removing the psmouse
module.

If rmmod psmouse turns off your touchpad, and leaves the usb mice
working, perhaps that would be a simple solution, with blacklist
module, or rmmod script called by rc.local and a sleep.d hook assuming
pm-utils.

Best,
AM


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From: Martin Kraus on 7 Jul 2010 06:10
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:36:40PM -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> > The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having
> > it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the
> > keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do
> > this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by input layer and used
> > by xinput?
> >
> > Also after resume/suspend the touchpad is enabled again and I have to manualy
> > turn it off.
>
> Haven't tried this in a while, as I'm using synclient now to do the
> job, but used to do what you're talking about by removing the psmouse
> module.
>
> If rmmod psmouse turns off your touchpad, and leaves the usb mice
> working, perhaps that would be a simple solution, with blacklist
> module, or rmmod script called by rc.local and a sleep.d hook assuming
> pm-utils.

I'm actualy using the track point which is also driven by the psmodule. I've
been wondering if there is a way to actualy turn of the /dev/input/eventn for
the touchpad. It might even be possible to turn it off in xorg.conf in
configuration for the evdev but I don't want to bother about xorg.conf
anymore if there is a hotplug way to work with it.

mk


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