Disable laptop touchpad

[Neil Winchurst]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On 1 February 2010 16:40, Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com> wrote:
>> 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,
> 
> There usually is an option in the BIOS to enable or disable the
> touchpad. Have you checked there?
> 
> / Jonas
> 
No, because I have not yet been able to call up the BIOS. I suspect the
relevant key is F10. Is that correct?

Neil