Removing touch pad tapping on Sony Vaio

[aplannan]

Hello,

I'm trying to remove the tapping function from the touch pad on a Sony Vaio S360. I am using the Xorg-7.5 extention which includes the syntaptic driver. However when I try to use "synclient -l" I recieve the following message:

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Do I have to manually load the driver, or should it be up and running by default.

Thanks

[Juanito]

You need an entry in your xorg.conf to load the synaptics driver, something like:

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "DualPoint Stick" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Alps Touchpad"  "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "DualPoint Stick"
Driver      "evdev"
# Option     "Protocol" "auto"
Option     "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
# Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Alps Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"
Option "Device"  "/dev/input/event6"
# Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "GuestMouseOff" "false"
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
EndSection


[aplannan]

Hi,

I just wanted to thank you (very belatedly) for your help. I just figured out how to do this on my computer. The issue was that I did not understand that I needed to create an xorg.conf file not edit the xorg.conf.vesa file. Newbie mistake, but once I did that it was pretty easy. Thanks.