how to disable touchpad on asus laptop running 11.10?

[Pastor JW]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:12:05 pm NoOp wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 11:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   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.

I could never get it turned off in Ubuntu so I taped a credit card over it.  


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