synaptics touchpad on HP Lapto

[chris]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 21:30 +0100, Martin Webster wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:23 +1200, chris wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone please advise me how to turn off this touch-pad?
> 
> From the terminal type synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn off and synclient
> TouchpadOff=0 to turn back on again.
> 
> man synclient
> 
> NAME
>        synclient - commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics
> driver options.
> 
> 
> -- 
> As ever,
> .\\artin
Many thanks, will try it out and let you know
Cheers the kiwi