Can not disable touchpad on 9.10

[Kognit]

Hi

I have ASUS K50IJ T3000 and Ubuntu 9.10 and i just can not disable touchpad. I installed packages for "TOuchFreeze" and "Touchpad" and still there is no result. Please help it's really annoying!

[Dark_Stang]

System > Preferences > Mouse. "Touchpad" tab. Uncheck enable touchpad.

[Kognit]

System > Preferences > Mouse. "Touchpad" tab. Uncheck enable touchpad.

Thx for reply but here i don't have this option - already checked. Any other solution?

[Neo40]

Same here. I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop. I tried:

System > Preferences > Mouse. "Touchpad" tab. Uncheck enable touchpad.

Does not work for me. Was ok with 9.04.

[Kognit]

Didn't try it because i automatically upgraded to 9.10. I have installed gsynaptics, touch frezze, touchpad, and still doesn't work. Any other solution?

[scebert]

I have the same problem on 9.10. I had previously used synclient touchpadoff=1, but that now has no effect. When I run synclient -l it shows that the value of touchpadoff has changed, but that doesn't turn the touchpad off. There is also no option to turn it completely off in the mouse settings or gconf.

[dnairb]

System > Preferences > Mouse. "Touchpad" tab. Uncheck enable touchpad.

Oh, if only it were that easy. This option was available in 9.04, but not in 9.10.

So, do we now have to look for third-party software to achieve what was achievable out-of-the-box in earlier versions of Ubuntu?

[djurny]

have you tried

synclient $(synclient -l|awk '$1~/^.*Tap.*/{print $1 "=0"}')

that will set all 'tap' related configurables to zero..

[dgilbert]

have you tried

synclient $(synclient -l|awk '$1~/^.*Tap.*/{print $1 "=0"}')

that will set all 'tap' related configurables to zero..

That didn't work. It changed the synclient entries but the touchpad ignored them on my Thinkpad T61. I want control over it or I want it disabled.

Kidnapping the offending driver works. In a shell as superuser I did this:

$ mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so ~

Then restart X.
That move can be reversed to put the synaptics driver back where X expects it.
Hopefully Ubuntu fixes this properly soon.

[Kognit]

Hi,
I found a solution in this webpage. For deactivation type in terminal:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse

For activation type:

sudo modprobe psmouse

I created two lunchers for touchpad with this commands.

I hope it will work.

Bye