Disabling touchpad in Ubuntu 9.10

[Ioannis Vranos]

OS: Ubuntu 9.10


I want to disable my laptop's touchpad, but without enabling SHMConfig.
I created the file:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi



with the contents:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
  <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
   <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="integer">1</merge>
  </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>



but it doesn't work. Any ideas?



xinput -list produces for my touchpad:


"SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"	id=10	[XExtensionPointer]
	Type is TOUCHPAD
	Num_buttons is 12
	Num_axes is 2
	Mode is Relative
	Motion_buffer is 256
	Axis 0 :
		Min_value is 1472
		Max_value is 5472
		Resolution is 1
	Axis 1 :
		Min_value is 1408
		Max_value is 4448
		Resolution is 1





Thanks,


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Ioannis Vranos

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