Turning off touchpad tapping?

[Derek Broughton]

Chuck Mattsen wrote:

> On Friday 10 February 2006 4:51 pm, you wrote:
>> There are several threads on this topic in the Ubuntu forums.  It was a
>> problem for a long time.  Eventually someone came up with an answer that
>> worked for my alps pad.  It's an xorg.conf thing.  I have no time right
>> now, but I'll get back to you with what worked for me.  Meanwhile you
>> might want to search the forums.
> 
> My touchpad is Synaptics, not Alps, though I see a lot of forum posts out
> there concerning both.  Still going through the forum posts, but short of
> recompiling the kernel I've not yet found anything that works.
> 
You're certain of that?  What laptop do you have?  Mine's an ALPS, but it
reports as "Synaptics" in some cases.

Justin has a good point about the fallback.  Check your /var/log/kdm.log and
X0rg.*.log files for any (EE) lines (also for Synaptics/alps mentions).
-- 
derek