hardy on amd laptop. can't apt-get install ksynaptics $#&^%#&^!

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

OH no!!!!!

I've just installed hardy from an 8.04.1 alt install cd on a Gateway
laptop (MT6451 Notebook PC) It has AMD Turion 64x2 processor and a
120 gig HD

It installed, but there are a few problems. To me the biggest is that
this laptop has one of those ^&$^&$*%^(*&(^&ing touchpad pointing
devices that defaults to tapping enabled. For vista I installed
synaptics just so I could disable tapping. For every linux I've ever
installed on this laptop I've installed ksynaptics for the same reason.

This included the edgy I just replaced with hardy... GAWD do I wish I
had used apt-get to upgrade through each of the releases in between
as then I might still have ksynaptics which is apparently no longer
in the repositories...

apt-get install ksynaptics 

just gets me the fact that it's not available but mentioned in another
package...

This happens even when I enable backports in /etc/apt/sources.list.

I'm VERY dependent on disabling tapping. With tapping enabled I can't
get the mouse pointer from point a to point b without having undesired
click events happening to each and every object in between...

And even when I'm typing on the keyboard it seems like the hairs on my
wrist can apply enough force to the fscking touchpad to cause a click
event when I didn't think I was touching the durned thing at all...

Would someone please tell me how to disable tapping in hardy kubuntu ???


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