The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/09/2010 11:40 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com 
> <mailto:fmiller at lightlink.com>> wrote:
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>     On 05/09/2010 04:22 PM, Angus MacGyver wrote:
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>     > Sorry all, missed the first post.
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>     > What laptop is this ?
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>     Dell Inspron 1525.
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> That is so weird.  I've got the same model and turned the pad off so 
> long ago I've forgotten how.  Drat.  I think it was just some 
> configuration thing with a GUI.   I dual-boot to Winduhs where I set 
> it to disable if there's any other pointing device -- a better option 
> for me because I move around and lose things sometimes.
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> If I can remember where that setting was...

Hehehehe.....I had it disabled in openSUSE 11.2 as well, but can't 
remember what utility I used to do it. :( I've tried everything in 10.04 
and nothing works! I'm about ready to open the 'puter up and disconnect 
the sucker! ;)

Fred