No touchpad found

[leetuckert]

Re: No touchpad found

The program you need is "synclient". I used a script to turn the touchpad off when KDE started up. I put it in the System Settings "Startup and Shutdown". This was before I was able to turn off my touch pad with

#!/bin/bash
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off

# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')

# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=0
else
  echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
  exit 1
fi
exit 0

When I execute `synclient` I get the error: "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synapt?ics driver loaded?"
The pad is working so I don't quite understand how the driver cannot be loaded. How can I check that?

[GreyGeek]

Re: No touchpad found

sudo apt-get install synclient

[leetuckert]

Re: No touchpad found

sudo apt-get install synclient

This is crazy, but:
terry@Genesis:~/Qt$ sudo apt-get install synclient
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package synclient

[GreyGeek]

Re: No touchpad found

Rats! See what I mean about a 70 year old brain?

The synclient program is part of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, so that command should have been:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Sorry.

[leetuckert]

Re: No touchpad found

Rats! See what I mean about a 70 year old brain?

The synclient program is part of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, so that command should have been:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Sorry.

Worry not, I appreciate the help. The program is already installed when I issue the command 'synclient' I get the following:
terry@Genesis:~/Qt$ synclient
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
terry@Genesis:~/Qt$
So it looks like the driver is not loaded; however, the device works
Someone said earlier that it looks as though the pad is bound to the mouse pointer as a single device. Is that what you think?

[GreyGeek]

Re: No touchpad found

I don't know.

When I installed synclient I could run those commands manually and turn the touch pad off and on. So, I put them in a script which loaded when KDE starts up.

synclient touchpadoff=1 to turn it off,
synclient touchpadoff=0 to turn it on.

Do those commands work from a Konsole?

[leetuckert]

Re: No touchpad found

I don't know.

When I installed synclient I could run those commands manually and turn the touch pad off and on. So, I put them in a script which loaded when KDE starts up.

synclient touchpadoff=1 to turn it off,
synclient touchpadoff=0 to turn it on.

Do those commands work from a Konsole?

No, I get the same error. Get this, my xorg.conf file has four lines in it:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Shouldn't this device be referenced in there?

[leetuckert]

Re: No touchpad found

Reading a long thread in the alt.os.linux.ubuntu newsgroup I saw a solution to a similar problem on an Asus, there was a switch in the BIOS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0JlvAa3Mos

I will check this out. By the way, thanks to all of you for your help!

[oshunluvr]

Re: No touchpad found

A little more detail just changed the whole issue. A while back - a kernel problem caused the Alps Touchpad and Trackpoint to be detected as a single PS/2 mouse - which seems to be your issue here.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/601113

[MoonRise]

Re: No touchpad found

Look at the package tpconfig. I installed it, and I'm a happy camper. What it does:

Description: touchpad device configuration utility
This package provides a program that can show or modify the configuration of
various touchpad devices, including the Synaptics
TouchPad and the ALPS Glidepad/Stickpointer.

I configured my touchpad to be 'disabled' when the mouse is plugged in. Works great.

Cool.. Thanks for that info Snowhog! Been looking for something that would auto disable when a mouse was plugged in.