how to disable touchpad on asus laptop running 11.10?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  the touchpad on my asus G74S is so sensitive that when i'm typing,
even a slight brush of the pad is recognized.  first impression is to
simply disable it entirely and use an external mouse, but when i
googled, i found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880532

  i like the idea of being able to say, simply disable the touchpad
while i'm typing.  in any event, what is the *recommended* way to
disable the touchpad?  is that gconftool invocation considered a
reasonable approach?  thanks.

rday

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