How to disable/re-enable touchpad on toshiba laptops?

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With the synaptics driver you disable touchpad with
#synclient touchpadoff=1

and enable with
#synclient touchpadoff=0

You can easily make a script to do this on Fn-F9 in /etc/acpi following
the other examples in there.

On mine (Tosh Satellite 2450) the synaptics driver breaks suspend so I
use

	Driver		"mouse"

instead of 

	Driver		"synaptics"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now, I just disable the touchpad with "modprobe -r psmouse"
and load when needed with "modprobe psmouse", and these actions tied to
Fn-F9
Cheers


-- 
Raoul Duke