The new kernel 2.6.16-1.2111 - nice

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Now I've also removed the synaptics drivers, trying to get rid of the crazy 
> effects it can do when typing and your hand or a finger gets within an inch 
> of this damned touchpad and all of a sudden your curser has moved to 
> someplace else on the screen.  But even after rebooting again after removal 
> of the drivers, I still have a touchpad, but now it complains about synch 
> losses.
>
> Do I have to make the dealer disconnect it to get rid of it?

Or you could learn to configure the driver.  All those effects are highly 
controllable--see /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/.  Check out gsynaptics 
for a GUI configurator (not sure how well it works).  Also take a look at 
syndaemon (part of the synaptics rpm), which might help with your 
wandering thumbs when typing.

You might also be able to disable the touchpad in the BIOS if nothing else 
makes you happy.
-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs