The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Tue May 11 01:45:32 UTC 2010


On 05/09/2010 06:25 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Strictly speaking, it isn't a Synaptics Touchpad. It is an Alps
> Touchpad.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad
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> Check there the "Major manufacturers" section.
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> Now, in an attempt to fix the issue:
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> Try to reinstall xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, reboot, open a terminal
> window and type:
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> synclient -l
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Why ahead of ya.....did that, and it still works! :(

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> and post the results here.
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> Also what version of Ubuntu are you running?
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10.04 I could "kill it" in 9.04.....NOT now.

Fred

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