Touch Pad refuses to disable

[Steve]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:49:37 -0000, FewClues <fewclues at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am really at the end of my rope. I have tried about everything to  
> disable
> my touchpad on a Compaq 6820s   I am running Ubunut 9.10 and it is
> completely updated.  I have the touch pad preference set without enable
> touchpad.  However, when I launch any application (Firefox, Evolution,
> UbuntuOne it re-enables.
>
> I have used this laptop since 8.04 without a lick of trouble with the  
> touch
> pad.    I dual booted another Linux brand and the touch pad behaves well.
>
> What would you suggest besides going back to another version.
>
Touch-pads have been discussed quite a lot lately, suggest you look  
through the list archives - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/

-- 
Steve