Disable Touchpad failure
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Fujitsu A3040 notebook
I hate touchpads. I always use an external USB mini-mouse and disable the touchpad.
By default, MEPIS 6.5 leaves both my touchpad and external USB mouse "LIVE".
I went into MEPIS KDE system utilities and checked the box to turn OFF the touchpad.
Result: NOTHING. It did NOT disable my touchpad. That is annoying since I often find that the touchpad gets triggered when I am using the keyboard, taking me out of the window in which I am typing.
Needs fixing.
LOL!
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Brilliant Liz!
It reminds me of what a friend of mine did in a similar situation. He had a laser printer in his home office. It had a large button on the top that, when pressed, would open the top so that you could replace the toner. Of course, that would also take the printer off-line. My friend also had a cat, that had the habit of walking all over his computer stuff and, he would frequently step on the button (stupid cat!). The solution my friend eventually came up with was to simply place a piece of fairly rigid plastic over the button, taped on only one edge. That way, he could flip the plastic up when he really had to hit the button, but the cat could step on it without undo effect 
Jon
No computer is magic, no operating system is magic, no website is magic. They all require human interaction, thought, and responsibility to work.
Liz and Jon:
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Liz and Jon: hilarious....
Still, he/she is right: it needs fixing.....
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
How about editing the
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How about editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and commenting out the touchpad driver (synaptic)?
to be truthful
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that was done by one of my sons, running gentoo, so its not just a mepis problem.
he actually won a usb stick for his effort on computer modification.
A solution
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I'm a MEPIS newbie (but longtime Mandrake and PCLinuxOS user),
and just ran into this problem. I found a solution via a Google
search. Use the following command as root from a shell prompt:
synclient TouchpadOff=1
not all solutions are technical
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