completely disable touchpad

[Spajderix]

Dnia 2011-03-07, pon o godzinie 14:43 +0100, Liviu Andronic pisze:

> Dear all
> I have this nasty bug on my HP where simply touching the touchpad
> grabs focus and holds it. This means that the slightest touch and I
> can no longer use the mouse to perform any click at all.
> 
> I tried to disable it as suggested here [1]
> xinput list | grep -i touchpad
> xinput set-prop 15 "Device Enabled" 0
> 
> and it seemed to work bar for one case: when I suspend and then
> re-awake the laptop, the touchpad gets activated again. And now and
> then I get careless and touch the thing, and the system gets stuck.
> 
> I think that best would be some Xorg config or making sure that the
> appropriate driver is not loaded, but I'm not sure which one that
> would be. Any ideas?
> 
> Regards
> Liviu
> 
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#Completely
> disabling Touchpad
> 
> 
> -- 
> Do you know how to read?
> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
> Do you know how to write?
> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
> 

You could try to disable it via bios. There is a big chance you have an
option for that.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20110308/3841a497/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: To jest część wiadomości podpisana cyfrowo
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20110308/3841a497/attachment.sig>