synaptics touchpad not recognized

[Derek Broughton]

Manfred Lotz wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:41:05 -0700
> "David N. Lombard" <dnl at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
>> Manfred Lotz wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> > Have an ASUS laptop and running Karmic Koala.
>> 
>> <Fn-F7>  On my Aspire One, the key has an icon on it that looks like
>> a finger extended from a hand touching the middle of a rectangle.
>> 
> 
> I have an ASUS X5DIJ which doesn't have that key.

Not at all surpring, since it isn't an Acer.  But thanks, David, for posting 
that, because it had never occurred to me that my Acer _does_ have such a 
key (I would never have guessed it was someone giving the touchpad the 
finger!).  Since I haven't been able to get udev to act when I plug in an 
external mouse, I've been manually running "synclient touchpadOff=1" every 
time I plug in a mouse.  fn-F7 works for me.
-- 
derek