instability of Thinkpad x250 with Debian Sid

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
I installed Sid on a new Thinkpad x250. The x server is acting up. One immediate problem is that if my hand brushes TrackPad, it causes all X applications (not desktop) to crash. So my original concern was to disable TrackPad because I don't use it in any case. This proved difficult. I disable it

Re: instability of Thinkpad x250 with Debian Sid

2015-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
I'd like to follow up to my original message. I found a good way to disable the TouchPad (BIOS disable does not work), which is to use this command: $ synclient TouchPadOff=1 This also works nicely in ~/.fluxbox/startup. So the instability problem reduces to this: When root or user's X server