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Re: [gNewSense-users] Yeeloong touchpad tapping


From: Dmitry Samoyloff
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Yeeloong touchpad tapping
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:48:24 +0400 (MSD)
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>> Is there way to disable touchpad tapping on the Yeeloong (8089-D)?
>> For me, this notebook "feature" is even more annoying than the Fn key
>> in the left bottom corner :-( There's the xorg.conf option for Synaptics
>> touchpads but Yeeloong's touchpad is different. My OS is Parkes,
>
> A solution known to work is to not use X.

This is too drastic for me ;-) However, most of the time I use Emacs and
Bash, so I'll think about it :-)

> The touchpad is made by Sentelic, the kernel driver doesn't have some
> features due to patent reasons, somehow absolute positioning (required
> by xf86-input-synaptics) is also disabled.

Another reason to hate patents.

> There are various non-mainline drivers for Sentelic touchpads (e.g. for
> MSI Wind), maybe some of them would work with the one in YeeLoong.  I
> haven't tried using them.

Thanks, I'll search for them.

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