Software-disabling touchpad

[Emiliano Pastorino]

Found this:

xsetpointer -c "OLPC ALPS HGPK"
xsetpointer +c "OLPC ALPS HGPK"

First one disables the touchpad, second one enables. And you don't need to
be root.



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Richard A. Smith <richard at laptop.org>wrote:

>
> > supposed to be able to disable the touchpad.
> > If that's the case, is there a neater way to do that?
>
> It obeys standard ps2 mouse commands.  Send the controller a 0xA7 and it
> will disable the output stream.
>
> http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2keyboard
>
> The mouse is the "Auxillary PS/2 device interface"
>
> Offhand I don't know the linux way of sending a command to the keyboard
> controller from userspace but Xwindows does it so its possible.
>
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