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I don’t like when my touchpad clicks because of tapping. With MaxTapTime I could disable this function. When I surf the net with Firefox and touched the lower area on the touchpad Firefox goes back/forward, this could be disabled with HorizScrollDelta . Look in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file :

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “synaptics”
Identifier “Mouse[1]“
Option “Buttons” “5″
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “on”
Option “InputFashion” “Mouse”
Option “Name” “Synaptics;Touchpad”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2″
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “MaxTapTime” “0″
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection

I have a HP Proliant ML370 G3 at school running Ubuntu 7.10 . One of the biggest issues with the server is that it is in classroom and the fans running at high speed making noise.

Found some info about this on the net, but everyone seemed to using alien to convert RPMs for Red Hat to Ubuntu (or Debian). I found Debian packages at HP’s website and this is how i lowered my fans in the server.

1. Go to hp.com and select Debian 4.0 (Etch) - HP ProLiant Value Add Software i386 .
2. Fill in the form and select hpasm-7.8.0-100.etch26.i386.deb in Software Specification .
3. Download the file to the server.
4. hpasm needs snmpd and libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 installed:
   $ sudo apt-get install snmpd libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
5. Install hpasm:
   $ sudo dpkg -i hpasm-7.8.0-100.etch26.i386.deb
6. Of some reason Ubuntu uses the shell DASH instead of BASH. That created the following error message: /opt/compaq/hpasm/etc/foundation.functions: 502: Syntax error: Bad substitution . Solution for this is to change the symbolic link /bin/sh to /bin/bash:
   $ sudo rm /bin/sh
   $ sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
7. Start hpasm :
   $ sudo /opt/compaq/hpasm/etc/hpasm start

Note that the error descibed in 6 is if you don’t relink /bin/sh to /bin/bash.