Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 13:02:21 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: turning off the touchpad Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609091250140.34497@fledge.watson.org>
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With the lastest version of Xorg they seem to have removed the ability to do this. AFAIK from google, the x11 mailing list and X.org this is not considered an issue or a bug. I found some stuff in FreeBSD 11.0 with sysctrls that might work there (although their issue was turning it on, if only...) those controls do not exist in FreeBSD 10.3. It appears that the change in integrating all support for pointing devices in a single driver. In my 10.1 system the touchpad was supported by a driver using ps2 interface, so adding [moused_port="/dev/ums0"] to rc.conf fixed the problem. I am posting here as I hope someone has found a workaround. On some laptops (esp mine) it is very hard to touch type and miss the touchpad. I wish you could turn it off in the BIOS, but no such luck.
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