I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Fedora Core 6. The following disabled my touchpad.
Add to the xorg.conf file (found in /etc/X11): Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "TouchpadOff" "1" and restart computer (or the X server). I found this reading all the above postings plus: man synaptics and man synclient Good Luck! -- synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks too easily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47971 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs