how to disable touchpad on asus laptop running 11.10?

[doug]

On 12/02/2011 09:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 01:49 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
>> 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:
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>>>> 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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> I didn't write *any* of what you attributed.
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> Doesn't much matter as Robert must have turned off his entire keyboard
> in the process (he's not replied)&  I like the good use of a credit
> card. :-) But please mind your attributions in the future.
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Can you get and use synaptiks (note spelling) in your distro?
That will turn off the touchpad when you have an external
pointing device plugged in.

--doug