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

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Sep 11, Derek Broughton did say:

> 
> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
> > OH no!!!!!

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> > 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...
> 
> You're right.  ime, it never did a darn thing anyway.  Both the synaptics
> and alps touchpads I've used basically automatically tap whether tapping is
> on or off or I'm even near the touchpad.  But thanks for your question,
> because this has been driving me batty, recently, and I've just realized
> it's because setting up multiple displays in Xorg.conf has regressed my
> touchpad fix.
> 
> Add to the xorg.conf "InputDevice" section for your touchpad:
>         Option          "MaxTapTime"    "0"
> I think that will do what you want - I know it will fix _my_ situation!
 
 Well I thank you again Derek (and Gordon as well) for providing me with
 what is probably the best solution... Considering that the only reason
 I ever wanted ksynaptics was to disable tapping...
 And if this works at all it should free me from having to make my first
 chore after gui start up be to get either ksynaptics or kcontrol up so
 that I can access the tapping disabled setting (that always seams to be
 ignored when kde is started) just so I can toggle the setting on then
 back off and apply the changes which kde will only respect for the
 current session... That was a pain which your solution should spare me
 from. I thank you!!!

> > 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...

 
> Oh!  That's what it is.  Time to shave my wrists :-)
 
I considered it... But gave up on the idea when I saw a fly trigger a
click event by bouncing of the durned touchpad... (Only saw it
happen once, but the idea that a fly could confirm some action I'd
decided was to risky, made me focus on just shutting tapping down every
time I fire this puppy up...)  

> If you really want ksynaptics and can't just find a deb, I'll email you the
> latest one that was in Ubuntu, as I do still have it.

Thanks but no thanks. I like your solution better... Besides I'm a little
leery of manually applying debs, or rpms or tarballs to any distro I
might be using. Since I multi boot AND need to spend some time actually
using my computer, I learned a long time ago I'd have much fewer
headaches if I let the smart geeks who maintain the repositories deal
with as many of the dependency issues as possible.

Thanks again!

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