Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > >Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > >>Have looked at the Xorg config. It shows that it's using synaptics. > >>How do I find the synaptics driver to alter the configuration > >>paramete

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-27 Thread Jim Moore
Wayne Topa wrote: Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Have looked at the Xorg config. It shows that it's using synaptics. How do I find the synaptics driver to alter the configuration parameters. What's synclient and [gq]synaptics and where do I find them? Next questi

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Have looked at the Xorg config. It shows that it's using synaptics. > How do I find the synaptics driver to alter the configuration > parameters. What's synclient and [gq]synaptics and where do I find them? > Next question. Once I get

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't yet found a good way to completely disable the touchpad (not just > the tapping) while typing. If someone knows of such a thing, I'd love to > hear about it. Hi Stefan, I fire up "syndaemon -d -k" out of .gnomerc which disables the touchpad

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Fernandez
I haven't yet found a good way to completely disable the touchpad (not just the tapping) while typing. If someone knows of such a thing, I'd love to hear about it. My laptop (an old Dell latitude) has a setting in the BIOS to disable the touchpad when an external mouse is connected. It is a rea

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] > In my case tpconfig doesn't seem to have any impact (although it does give > the impression of working correctly), whereas things like synclient or > [gq]synaptics definitely do work. > > I haven't yet found a good way t

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm running Woody 2.6.12.2 on an HP Pavilion notebook (dv4040us). One > problem I'm trying to fix is the touchpad's sensitivity. This > touchpad is crazy sensitive -- just breathe on it and the pointer > moves! In some contexts, this doesn't bother me that much. But, when > I'm using apps or

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Derek Broughton
Andy Dolbey wrote: >> > I've tried using tpconfig to disable tap mode, but that doesn't fix >> > this problem. It's almost like I need to just turn the touchpad off >> > completely while I'm typing text. >> >> What did you try with tpconfig? > > I tried turning off the tapmode like this: > >

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Will Maier
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:27:12PM -0600, Andy Dolbey wrote: > I thought I had loaded the synaptics driver, but it was the "synaptic > package manager" I had loaded. Different piece altogether. Truly. You'll want the driver, then, not the package manager (although that's fine, too). > Section "

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Wohler
David Reviejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Andy, > > * Andy Dolbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050729 09:33]: >> I've tried using tpconfig to disable tap mode, but that doesn't fix >> this problem. It's almost like I need to just turn the touchpad off >> completely while I'm typing text. > > Try "sy

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Andy Dolbey
On 7/29/05, Dominique Orban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a synaptic touchpad on my laptop (Alienware Area 51-M 5500) and > here is the touchpad section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > Driver "syna

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Dominique Orban
On 7/29/05, Andy Dolbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/28/05, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you give more information? What do the 'input devices' sections of > your > > XF85Config file say? Are you using the synaptics driver (try 'lsmod > synaptic')? > > There are several option

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Andy Dolbey
On 7/28/05, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you give more information? What do the 'input devices' sections of your > XF85Config file say? Are you using the synaptics driver (try 'lsmod > synaptic')? > There are several options for the X11 config file that are relevant: > MinSpeed

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread David Reviejo
Hi Andy, * Andy Dolbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050729 09:33]: > I've tried using tpconfig to disable tap mode, but that doesn't fix > this problem. It's almost like I need to just turn the touchpad off > completely while I'm typing text. Try "syndaemon", from the xfree86-driver-synaptics package; s

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-28 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:02:49PM -0600, Andy Dolbey wrote: > I'm running Woody 2.6.12.2 on an HP Pavilion notebook (dv4040us). One > problem I'm trying to fix is the touchpad's sensitivity. This > touchpad is crazy sensitive -- just breathe on it and the pointer > moves! In some contexts, this