One more question...

[Tom Bell]

On 8/29/2011 7:44 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> How, or what utility do I install, to shut the touchpad in that lappy
> completely off?
>
> I run a radio mouse on it, 100%  of the time.
>
> 2-4 years ago, mandi had a utilty they called synaptik that did that, but
> it has apparently either been renamed, or incorporated into some other
> utility whose name I have not stumbled over yet.
>
> Also, back to the ndiswrapper thing, I found that if I do a fresh install
> of 1.56, then nuke the ubuntu installed version in lib/modules, then a
> "depmod -a `uname -r`", that it seems to work in the Makefiles default
> location.  I also nuked the 2.6.32-34 kernel, but had to do it by hand as I
> could not find it in synaptic.  The headers, yes, the kernel itself, no.
>
> Making progress though, my mail sucker script ran successfully earlier
> today.  Whoopee, BWG etc.
>
> Thanks all, Cheers, gene
I would say to open ->System Settings -> Software Management
and look for "touchpad", which in my case showed
synaptiks renamed as "kde-config-touchpad".
I am using Natty on an AMD64, but this should show
you something.
Good luck!

Tom

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