Help - Configure laptop mousepad

[daniel1948]

I'm not even sure "mousepad' is the correct term for it. I now have SUSE Linux installed on my Averatec 3200 laptop. KDE is the desktop. Tapping the mousepad is detected as a left click, which makes it almost impossible for me to control the cursor.

Previously, when I had Windows on it, I had it configured not to do this. When I look for properties of the mousepad, Linux thinks it is a separate mouse, so does not offer any options to change the behavior of the pad.

FWIW, it also seems to think it has an i386, and I'm pretty sure it has some kind of Pentium.

Anybody know how to change the behavior of the mousepad?

Thanks.

[daniel1948]

P.S. I found where it knows the computer has a touchpad, but it still does not give me the option to disable the tap=click function.

[ladoga]

Open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if there's:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"

To disable tapping add/edit this line under the section above:
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

Then save the xorg.conf and restart X. (ctrl-alt-bacspace)


I think that Averatec 3200 has synaptics touchpad so following might also help:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad

That instruction is for gentoo, but it should give you idea how to configure touchpad in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf . (scroll down to xorg configuration section of article) I don't know if it has what you're looking for, but maybe it will be of some help.