[ltp] Can I disable the mouse touchpad on my T43

Jiang Qian linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:38:08 -0500


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:10:12PM +0100, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Timothy Murphy schrieb:
> > I've graduated from a T23 (passed on to my grand-daughter) to a T43,
> > which works very nicely.
> > But I find the touch-pad slightly annoying,
> > and would like to disable it if that is possible,
> > and just use the pointer.
> > 
> > Can I do that under Linux (Fedora + KDE)?
> > 
> easily in bios
Or try realtime disabling: add
Option	"SHMConfig" "on"
to your xorg touchpad section and then use synclient TouchpadOff=1 to 
turn it off. See
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad#Real-Time_Tweaking
Jiang
> florian