Re: Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

2010-11-12 Thread ael
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:35:11PM +, ael wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > Thanks. My question is what to make of > > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS_Debian.gz: > > == Another point: you did look at /var/log/Xo

Re: Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

2010-11-12 Thread ael
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks. My question is what to make of > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS_Debian.gz: > == Too busy to reply more, but I think you need xorg.conf to pass the special parameters to the touchpad. O

Re: Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

2010-11-12 Thread ael
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:16:15AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On 11 November 2010 16:14, ael wrote: > > > Both of those were used by older versions of xorg for a while. > > Either one or the other, not both together. I can't remember the > > I did not look there :) I did not even know about t

Re: Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

2010-11-11 Thread ael
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Previously I had a Thinkpad and /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a synaptics > configuration. I could disable the touchpad with this command: > > /usr/bin/synclient "TouchpadOff=`/usr/bin/synclient -l | sed -ne > 's/\(TouchpadOff *= *\)\([01]

Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

2010-11-11 Thread Johann Spies
Previously I had a Thinkpad and /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a synaptics configuration. I could disable the touchpad with this command: /usr/bin/synclient "TouchpadOff=`/usr/bin/synclient -l | sed -ne 's/\(TouchpadOff *= *\)\([01]\)/\2/p' | sed -e 'y/01/10/'`" Now I have a Dell E6410 with Squeeze (a