[SLUG] touchpad - can i turn it off?

I've got a dell laptop whose touch pad has gone birko... otherwise it works fine. Can I turn the touchpad off in X so that the nipple or a usb mouse still works? Ubuntu 5.10 Thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] touchpad - can i turn it off?

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:27 +1000, david wrote: I've got a dell laptop whose touch pad has gone birko... otherwise it works fine. Can I turn the touchpad off in X so that the nipple or a usb mouse still works? You can turn it off in the BIOS iirc. Otherwise, you'll probably have to edit