Disable Touchpad

[Shannon McMackin]

Raquel wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:19:03 -0400
> Shannon McMackin <smcmackin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>
> 
> I haven't been able to determine whether it's a synaptics touchpad or
> not.
> 
> Isn't disabling it in the BIOS kind of like using a chainsaw to take
> a speck out of my eye?
> 
> I'm currently using a little program called 'touchfreeze'.  I'll let
> you know how it works out.  So far so good.
> 
I was going to add that turning the touchpad off in BIOS would be akin 
to unnecessary surgery, if you can find no other recourse, it is an 
option...