Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:47:32 +0000 |
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Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> writes:
> Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes: > >> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes: >> >> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:18:22PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: >> > >> >> Will this also result in the passthough port not being enabled? >> >> (I'd like to disable it.) >> > >> > It depends on the touchpad firmware. Most leave it enabled. >> > In this mode we don't have any control over the passthrough port. >> >> I notice that the passthrough appears as an extra device (mouse1 on my >> system). Is there a way to disable devices from userspace? > > You can write a program that grabs the event device for exclusive > access and then just ignores all events, like this:
That works great. Thank you!
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