[ltp] E520 - turn off touch pad

[James Knott]

I am looking in the BIOS, but don't see a setting for it.  I'm currently 
looking in the Keyboard/Mouse section and there's nothing there about it.

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> You may be able to disable in the desktop settings.  But, I didn't find a way
> (KDE in OpenSuSE 11.4) and so disabled it in the BIOS.
>
> HTH,
>    Jeffrey
>
> Quoting James Knott<james.knott@rogers.com>:
>    
>> I have a ThinkPad E520, which comes with both TrackPoint and touch
>> pad pointing devices.  How do I turn off the touch pad.  I bought a
>> ThinkPad, because I hate touch pads and prefer TrackPoint.  Even
>> though I use the TrackPoint, the touch pad is still an irritation,
>> as it responds to my hand moving above it.  I just want to turn it
>> completely off.
>>
>> tnx jk
>>
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