Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turning off the touchpad Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609091401020.34497@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609091348240.34497@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609091250140.34497@fledge.watson.org> <57D2F346.9040508@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609091348240.34497@fledge.watson.org>
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>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, jd1008 wrote:
>
>> Do you have the command
>>
>> synclient
>>
>> in /bin or /usr/bin or /sbin or /usr/sbin ...etc ???
>>
>> If yes, then you can turn it off and on with that command.
>>
>> synclient Touchpadoff=1 # turn it off
>> synclient Touchpadoff=0 # turn it on
>
> Thanks for the thought but, nope; no command, package, port, or anywhere in
> /usr/local. I can find people talking about it but it seems to be gone by
> 10.3 and xorg 7.7_2.
BTW in googling for synclient, I found the following:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "libinput"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "Tapping" "on"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 3 2 4 5 6"
EndSection
The URL is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput#Configuration. Some
promise here, I will report back when I can. Much client care and feeding today
:)
>> On 09/09/2016 11:02 AM, doug wrote:
>>> 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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