The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:52 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: 
> On 05/09/2010 04:27 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >> Nope.....been there and did it.
> >>      
> > Is mouseemu package installed? If yes, try uninstalling it.
> >    
> 
> 'NOT installed.....ever.
> 
> >
> > Also try installing hardinfo and run it from System Tools::System
> > Profiler and Benchmark.
> >
> > Go to Devices::Input Devices, and provide the the exact info of your
> > touchpad.
> >    
> 
>   AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint
> Type    Mouse
> Bus     0x11
> Vendor 2
> Product 0x8
> Version 0x7321
> Connected To    isa0060/serio2/input0
> 
> 'Didn't help me much when I looked at it a long time ago. :(


Strictly speaking, it isn't a Synaptics Touchpad. It is an Alps
Touchpad.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad


Check there the "Major manufacturers" section.



Now, in an attempt to fix the issue:


Try to reinstall xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, reboot, open a terminal
window and type:


synclient -l


and post the results here.


Also what version of Ubuntu are you running?





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