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On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 05:01 -0500, sard wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've got a Dell Latitude c610 with a synaptic touchpad. It works fine</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but I want to disable the little joystick mouse thing in the middle of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the keyboard as it's faulty and causes the mouse cursor to wonder off. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Anybody got any ideas?</FONT>
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$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf<BR>
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Then find the region that looks like this:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
...
EndSection
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Before <TT>EndSection, </TT>add <TT>"GuestMouseOff 1".</TT> Restart X (log out, then do a ctrl-alt-backspace to make sure X is dead). Hopefully the stick will be disabled.<BR>
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mike<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">sard</FONT>
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Michael R Head <<A HREF="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</A>><BR>
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