Synaptics touchpad turn off function

[dandys997]

Hi,
I'm running Mageia 1 (or 2 beta 3, there are the same) on my HP 630 laptop. There's a Synaptics touchpad with a hole in the top left corner. When I tap two times quickly on this hole, the LED starts lighting and the touchpad is turned off:



Unfortunately - now it only works on Windows.

Is it possible to make this function available on Mageia? Thanks in advance for help.

[djennings]

I do not have a Synaptics touchpad, but I do know how to enable/disable a touchpad using a keyboard key binding.

In the touchpad section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file add the option

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Option "SHMConfig" "on"

reboot for the new option to take effect.

Now using whatever desktop manager you use, create a key binding to run the command

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synclient TouchpadOff=1

1= disable 0=enable

If you create a script called trackpad-toggle.sh containing

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 #!/bin/bash
 synclient TouchpadOff=$(synclient -l | grep -c 'TouchpadOff.*=.*0')

then calling the script in a key binding will toggle the trackpad on and off.

See the Arch Linux Wiki for more
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

[dandys997]

I know it's the one of workarounds, but I would like to use this hole to disable/enable touchpad.

I've used for a while SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and it works there (without LED lighting), so I asked if it is possible in Mageia.

[doktor5000]

You should take a look which driver is used under SLED for this touchpad, and probably open a terminal and do the following as root (also under SLED)

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tailf /var/log/messages

and then press that touchpad-disable-thingie to see what happens to disable it.
Or alternatively check via "xev" if it sends a proper keypress.

[dandys997]

I'm afraid I can't do this. Touchpad turn off function workend on the preinstalled version of SLED. I've deleted that version and try to install standard SLED. Unfortunately, turning off touchpad by double tap on a gap in the corner doesn't work.

I think I should post a request of this funcion on bugzilla. Moreover - I found a patch for Synaptics drivers which enabled LED (https://github.com/perusio/xorg-synapti ... .4.0.patch).

[doktor5000]

If you have reported that bug, please post the link here, and feel free to assign that bug to me, i'll take a look then.
Also, when you have some linux preinstalled, there are mostly always slight modifications, which may not be necessarily contained in a "vanilla" version of the same distribution.

[dandys997]

Here is the link: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5694