Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default

[Sean Neakums]

Peter Osterlund <petero2@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> 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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