Have you checked for a BIOS option? On my thinkpad there are BIOS options to disable the built-in pointer devices.
nick On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 11:01 -0400, Paul Tatham wrote: > I have a Lenovo Ideapad U400 with an odd touchpad. Can't find a way to > disable it when a mouse is plugged in. The function key (F6 on the > keyboard) doesn't toggle on/off as it does in windows. Using Ubuntu > 12.04 system settings, there is no touchpad found - it shows up only > as a mouse. When I less /proc/bus/input/devices the only pointing > device that appears shows up as NAME="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" > instead of something like NAME="SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". When I > plug in a USB mouse nothing changes in proc and both the mouse and the > touchpad work. qsynaptics or other synclient stuff has not worked > because there is no touchpad detected. This doesn't seem to be a > synaptics touchpad. Anyone have any ideas on how to shut it off? > > > -- > Paul Tatham > 514 946-6323 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
