The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/09/2010 04:22 PM, Angus MacGyver wrote:
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> Sorry all, missed the first post.
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> What laptop is this ?
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Dell Inspron 1525.

> Does it have ability to disable in bios?
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No, or I would have done that a LONG time ago, as I HATE touchpads!

> I got a Thinkpad 500, and got a "Fn" + "F8" -turns off the touchpad
> nicely..
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Don't I wish! ;)

> Is there anything like this on your machine ?
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No.

Fred

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