Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

[phil]

Linux Media wrote:
>  >>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List
>  >>> Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad.
>  >>> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi
>  >>> over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it
>  >>> really all works. And all I got was fragmented pieces of information
>  >>> from my research. I would like to adhere to the new approach to
>  >>> configuring hardware. I'm assuming that creating an xorg.conf file
>  >>> just confuses things and doesn't address the new way of doing
>  >>> things.
>  >>>
>  >>> Ok, so does anyone know how to correctly edit an FDI file to disable
>  >>> mouse taps (and which file)? Or is there a better way?
> 
>  >> follow the instructions here
>  >>
>  >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814
> 
>  > You don't need to do any of that.   All you need to do is:
>  >
>  > a) yum install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
>  > b) synclient TouchpadOff=1
>  >
>  > I am writing a Qt GUI to interface with synclient as we speak.
>  >
>  > LG
> 
> yum list xorg-x11-drv-synaptics reveals that it was installed all along. 
> It didn't work until I copied a previous xorg.conf file to /etc/X11 and 
> added in the InputDevice section (among other things)...
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Synaptics"
>     Driver      "synaptics"
>     Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
> EndSection
> 
> Now I can do...
> 
> synclient TouchpadOff=2
> (diabling mouse taps)
> 
as we are moving away from using an X11 config the best option is to use 
the hal fdi, like i said try my file i posted remove the X11 and re-boot