There is nothing in the BIOS and the keyboard toggle doesn't work as it
does in windows. Although the touchpad works, I don't see any device ID.
Nothing appears in lsusb or lspci (unless I plug in a USB mouse). proc
shows me the ImPS/2 mouse but there is no device ID there. I don't think
it's a synaptics or alps device.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 12-04-12 11:01 AM, 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]
>
>
> I found this which may help:
>
> ----------------
> Completely disabling Touchpad
>
> Some systems don't have the option to permanently disable the touchpad via
> BIOS or it's located in an external keyboard. To fully disable you can do
> the following:
>
>     Determine the device id (the device name should be something with
> touchpad or glidepoint)
>
> xinput list
>
>     Disable it (e.g. here the device id is 15)
>
> xinput set-prop 15 "Device Enabled" 0
>
> You may run the command during session startup
>
> ---------------
>
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#Disabling_Touchpad_while_Typing
>
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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