Re: Touchpad tapping won't stay disabled

It's Sept 2009 and I don't see a solution to this yet. I just got a new T400 and the double tapping is driving me nuts too and won't stay disabled. My "old" T40 was fine - I disabled it and it never came back on again.
Who is running this forum? Are there any lenovo people here to answer these questions? I would very much like to disable this "feature". I've tried in control panel/mouse. I looked at the bios and disabling the entire ultranav was the only option there and I don't want to do that.

bethw wrote:
Who is running this forum? Are there any lenovo people here to answer these questions?
While there are a few Lenovo employees roaming around in here helping out on a volunteer basis, this is not an official support channel with dedicated Lenovo support personnel assigned to it. Instead, this is designed to be a user-to-user support and discussion forum. You may or may not get an answer directly from one of the Lenovo employees as there are way more of us than them and all of them, even Mark, have full-time jobs doing other things.
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Last edited by thayer (2009-03-18 05:04:06)

ichbinesderelch wrote:with xserver 1.5 you have to enable tapping in synaptic section seperatly in xorg with:
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Ah ha! Thanks, I'll give that a shot when I get back to my office. Thanks too Andy, if all else fails I may have to go with hal/xorg, but I'm leaving that as a last resort.
Update: That worked great, thanks again ichbinesderelch!
Last edited by thayer (2009-03-19 01:18:16)

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