How to disable/re-enable touchpad on toshiba laptops?

[Senectus .]

I'm finding that the touch pad is causing me problems... Normally
(under windows) I'd do a combo of the "Fn + F9" keys to disable the
touch pad at will.
Is there some way to make this work or perhaps some other way to
change it's parameters?
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