Disable laptop touchpad

[Neil Winchurst]

I have been given a laptop (Presario V5030EA). Lucky, eh?

Anyway, I have installed Mint 7 XFCE version, which is based on Jaunty.
It all seems great, and very similar to Kubuntu. I chose that distro as
it needs fewer resources.

Unfortunately this laptop does not have a button to disable the touchpad
and most of the time I use it with a mouse. I have used Google to try to
find how to disable the touchpad and have finished up rather confused.
For a start it appears that methods which worked with versions of ubuntu
up to Intrepid will no longer work with Jaunty.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please? There must be some
simple way to do it, surely. Any help gratefully received,

Neil