turn off tapping

[enoch]

Loaded Xorg tried one synaptics driver after uncompressing the tarball could not make or install

[Juanito]

Loaded Xorg tried one synaptics driver after uncompressing the tarball could not make or install

What error messages did you get?

[Juanito]

synaptics driver extension posted if you'd like to test it 

[enoch]

installed the synaptics extension entered synclient -l result was Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? My goal is to turn off tapping making an entry in xorg.conf like MaxTapTime=0, would that do it?
Thanks,
Dave

[Juanito]

..sorry, I posted the wrong version of synaptics.tcz by mistake.

I've posted the correct one now

[enoch]

Thanks will try it tonight am I right about the MaxTapTime=0 in xorg.conf

[Juanito]

That could work, but there's another setting with a value of 0, 1 or 2 which will turn off tapping when set to 2 - I can't think of the setting name right now, but it should be obvious from "synclient -l"

[Juanito]

Go it:

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TouchpadOff = 0,1,2

0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off

GuestMouseOff = 0,1

0 enabled
1 off
..and now for the first time in xorg I can have either only the touchpad enabled or only the pointing stick enabled or both 

[enoch]

uninstalled and reinstalled the synaptics extension synclient -l still results with Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

[Juanito]

..just to be sure, did you create a suitable entry in xorg.conf loading the synaptics driver?

[enoch]

 I installed the extension rebooted and then tried synclient -l are you saying xorg.conf needs to be created after the download?

[enoch]

what would the entry be in xorg.conf to load the driver?

[Juanito]

see the second post here:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=3615.0

[enoch]

sorry I don't know what to do with that posting, what entry is needed in xorg.conf to setup the driver so synclient -l will yield info?

[Juanito]

You need to have this section in its entirety:

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Alps Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"
Option "Device"  "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection
..although only this line enables synclient:

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Option "SHMConfig" "true"
..and the "ServerLayout" section needs this line:

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InputDevice "Alps Touchpad"  "AlwaysCore"