Problems: not preserving /home, unable to config touchpad, wireless not working
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I had 3.4.3 installed on a partition on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, which worked fine. I tried updating to RC1 with a CD image, but when I checked "preserve the home directory" it aborted the installation. Since I didn't have anything important on the partition, I went ahead and let it reformat completely.
Two significant problems remained in RC1.
1. There is no way to configure the Synaptics touchpad on the laptop. The slewing velocity is too fast for me, and the double-tap click "feature" is impossibly annoying. There needs to be a FAQ on how to reconfigure the touchpad.
2. I could not get the built-in wireless networking to work. It worked fine in 3.4.3 on device ath0:, but I could not get it to work at all on RC1. This should be fixed before final release.
I searched and found this
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I searched and found this suggestion. I modified the xorg.conf file in the etc/x11 folder and I still have this annoying problem with the touch pad "tapping" feature. Any other options?
Thanks,
Mike
Disabling tap-to-click on laptop touchpads
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To respond to my own post, the attached thread from Ubuntu forums has useful info on how to disable the annoying touchpad behavior:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76585
Basically, editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf thusly:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
EndSection
The important line is the one with MaxTapTime. If it's not there, add it. If it's there, make sure it's set to zero.