[ltp] E520 - turn off touch pad

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:53:57 -0400


bhaskins wrote:
> On 10/22/2011 04:23 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> 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.
> AMEN!
> I did this in a R52 using F1 setup.
>
>>
>> tnx jk
>>
>

I have done it that way too in other computers, but there doesn't seem 
to be a BIOS setting for it.