The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

Sun May 9 20:22:50 UTC 2010

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:04 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:

> >
> > Isn't any still installed?
> >    
> 
> Nope.....nada, no lib.....nothing.
> 
> Fred
> 

Sorry all, missed the first post.

What laptop is this ?
Does it have ability to disable in bios ?

I got a Thinkpad 500, and got a "Fn" + "F8" -turns off the touchpad
nicely..

Is there anything like this on your machine ?

AM