But the machine I've installed it on is a dell inspiron N5030 which has one of those lovely little trackpads and I cannot figure out how to disable the tap-to-click function, which means I am constantly creating false-positive mouse clicks (I did three just while typing this paragraph, argh!)
Doing some searching, most of the solutions to this problem involve customizing xorg.conf which I believe is completely deprecated now. So I can't use that!
A little info:
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uname -a
Linux maybeinnovations 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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xinput -list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_0.3M id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
So, how can disable the annoying tap-to-click function without using xorg.conf? Will I need to first convice linux that i REALLY REALLY do have a touchpad and not some PS/2 mouse? If it thinks I have a generic PS/2 mouse then why is tapping working at all!?
I've seen some other people mention this problem and it appears to have a report in kernel bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23502
Is upgrading to a newer Kernel advisable or even possible? It looks like 2.26.33 and .34 have some driver updates that might help me...
TIA