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 the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
This looks useful as well:
$ apt-cache show tpconfig
Package: tpconfig
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 192
Maintainer: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.1.3-7
Replaces: synaptics
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/universe/t/tpconfig/tpconfig_3.1.3-7_i386.deb
Size: 59328
MD5sum: 1e74cc83330f7b8a86b125745eb75a53
Description: configure touchpad devices
This program can show or modify the configuration of several
different kinds of touchpad devices, including the Synaptics
TouchPad and the ALPS Glidepad/Stickpointer.
Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Origin: Ubuntu
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