[Novalug] hp touchpad disabling

Rich Goodwin rich@the-goodwins.us
Wed May 15 15:22:26 EDT 2013


 

I had to disable the touchpad on my Dell in the BIOS. IIRC, a later
Ubuntu update enabled touchpad-indicator to work as anticipated ...but
that was a while ago. 

On 2013-05-15 15:19, Gary Knott wrote: 

> Dear
group, 
> 
> Following web-directions (plus various false leads and
dead-ends as usual,)
> I have installed a program: touchpad-indicator
that is supposed to be able to disable
> the annoying touchpad. (I run
lubuntu 12.04 on an hp dv6 laptop.) 
> Trying to run it via "Lubuntu
left-bottom symbol" ->accessories -> touchpad-indicator 
> does nothing
visible.
> 
> Running it in an xterm yields:
> 
> knott@dv6:~$ sudo
/usr/bin/touchpad-indicator
> [sudo] password for knott: 
> Encoding:
UTF-8
> Current Locale: en_US
>
#####################################################
> No LSB modules
are available.
> #####################################################
>
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
> Release:
12.04
> Codename: precise
> Version: i686
>
#####################################################
> 
>
Touchpad-Indicator version: 0.9.3.12
>
#####################################################
>
^Cg_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: 
>
Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read
(g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
> /usr/bin/touchpad-indicator: line 27:
1989 Terminated $LAUNCHER $*
> 
> Note the ^C that i typed.
> 
> I also
obtained and tried a program called synclient which, according to
>
monkey-see directions is to be run by typing
> synclient TouchpadOff=2 -
This does change something as i can see
> if I type just synclient for a
report of touchpad properties, but the touchpad is still
> getting in
the way. And sudo does not help.
> 
> There is also a program called
gpointing-device-settings which when run 
> puts up a GUI window in
which one can disable the touchpad, but it 
> prints the following error
in my xterm when it is run and when I click the 
> desired boxes and hit
"OK", the touchpad is not disabled.
> 
> == An X error occurred. The
error was BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter).
> 
> So my questions are: 
>

> 1. how can I get the touchpad turned-off?
> 
> And 
> 
> 2. How can I
report the failures of the above programs
> to their authors or whoever?
(I want to report via email
> which I understand how to use. It would be
nice if there was
> a central clearing-house to receive such emails,
discard
> the unclear ones or mistaken ones, and send the others
> on to
the authors.)
> 
> garyknott@gmail.com [See the Lisp book at
www.civilized.com [2]]
> 
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> 
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