[Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901

[Eric Cooper]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:15:43PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote:
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > argh, sorry, i meant syndaemon
> 
> So, what does that do?  I have considerable trouble with 
> touchpad-while-typing errors.  I'd love for the touchpad to be disabled 
> whenever the usb mouse is plugged in.  Possible?

Thanks, Ben: syndaemon is exactly what I wanted.

David: you can manually disable it by using
    synclient TouchpadOff=1
It should be possible to do this automatically when you plug in a USB
mouse, either with a udev rule or by using HAL somehow, but I haven't
tried it.

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