how to disable touchpad on asus laptop running 11.10?

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 3 December 2011 04:30, doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> 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.
What's wrong with xinput?

hakan at photon:11:14:07:~$ xinput list |grep -i Touch
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]

hakan at photon:11:16:10:~$ xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
"Device Enabled" 0
Device gone.

hakan at photon:11:16:10:~$ xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
"Device Enabled" 1
Device back.