Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 the mental interface of Erik Chakravarty told: > I'm having trouble running mouseemu. Even after I modprobe uinput I get > these errors. > > mouseemu 0.12 (C) Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > using (0+68) as middle button, (0+87) as right button, (56) as scroll. > using /dev/

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-04 Thread Sebastian Henschel
g'day... * Erik Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-04 12:32 +0100]: > I'm having trouble running mouseemu. Even after I modprobe uinput I get > these errors. > > mouseemu 0.12 (C) Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > using (0+68) as middle button, (0+87) as right button, (56) as scroll. > usin

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-04 Thread Erik Chakravarty
I'm having trouble running mouseemu. Even after I modprobe uinput I get these errors. mouseemu 0.12 (C) Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> using (0+68) as middle button, (0+87) as right button, (56) as scroll. using /dev/uinput. Trying to open /dev/uinput... error. Trying to open /dev/uinput... error

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:24:07PM -0800, Mike Power wrote: > Barry Hawkins wrote: > >Guys, > >~If you have the powerpc-utils package installed, the trackpad > >utility allows you to control the trackpad: > > > ># trackpad --help > >usage: trackpad notap|tap|drag|lock|show > > > Is there a good

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Mike Power
Barry Hawkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: | On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: | [...] | Not with pbbuttonsd. AFAIR disabling the trackpad can't be done with any | other tool either. If you got some time to s

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 01 Nov 2004 at 15h11, Paul van Tilburg wrote: Hi, > The problem I have with this OS X like behaviour is that it makes it > impossible to resize or move a window with Alt/Meta+MMB and Alt/Meta+RMB > respectively. Are you sure of it ? mouseemu should not lock the trackpad when modifier keys a

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:28:33PM +0100, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Can anybody think of a way to disable the touchpad temporarily (without > > restarting X)? > > > > The touchpad is very sensitive under Linux it seems and k

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:15:39AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > | On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > | > > [...] > | Not with pbbuttonsd. AFAIR disabling the trackpad can't be done with any > | other tool either. If you got some time

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: | On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: | [...] | Not with pbbuttonsd. AFAIR disabling the trackpad can't be done with any | other tool either. If you got some time to spare you could hack mouse

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > Can anybody think of a way to disable the touchpad temporarily (without > restarting X)? > > The touchpad is very sensitive under Linux it seems and keeps jumping > around documents whilst I'm typing if I accidentally brush close