Disable Touchpad

[Shannon McMackin]

Raquel wrote:
> My HP G70 has a touchpad that was able to be disabled using the
> keyboard switch with Vista installed.  However, with Ubuntu Intrepid
> installed the switch does not disable the touchpad.  Is there any way
> in Ubuntu to accomplish that task?
> 
Is it a synaptics touchpad?

If so, you can install gsynaptics and the xorg driver from wgrant's PPA 
and have software control.

You can always disable it in the BIOS...