From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 9 18:07:15 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB03BD4115 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABAD854 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF5FB46B86; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u89I7Dxa041771; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id u89I7Dom041768; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: doug@fledge.watson.org To: jd1008 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turning off the touchpad In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <57D2F346.9040508@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:07:15 -0000 >> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >