diabling completly the touchpad

[Rickard E]

BRINER Cedric wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I would like to use only the external mouse and to disable everything
> about the touchpad !
> 
> I've tried to modify the XF86Config-4 by overconfiguring the
> CorePointer as follow:
> 
>    Section "ServerLayout"
>             :
>            InputDevice    "CorePointer"
>             :
>    EndSection
> 
>    Section "InputDevice"
>            Identifier      "CorePointer"
>            Driver         "mouse"
>            Option          "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>            Option          "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>            Option          "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Perhaps you need to make changes at an earllier stage, so that "core 
pointer"
is no longer defined as being the touchpad. Have you tried "setup" from 
the console? If yo're using an USB external mouse it might work.

Regards
/Rickard
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