How to turn off touchpad leaving USB mouse working?

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Ievgen

Hi,

I've got a minor but very annoying problem, I keep touching the touchpad with my palm while typing the text so this causes the mouse cursor to appear everywhere else but not in the right place.

I am an ordinary user of Gnome 2, I tried to kill moused but my USB mouse also stops working. Could you help me to disable the touchpad but leaving the USB mouse working ? Ideally I would like the magic combination of Fn+F3 to work on my laptop in Gnome like it works in Windows, but it does not :(

Thanks.
 
There might be an option in the BIOS.

Otherwise, disabling moused(8) in /etc/rc.conf will stop PS/2 mice but leave USB mice working:
Code: 
moused_enable="NO"

Disabling HAL for input device detection may also be required.
xorg.conf
Code: 
Section "ServerLayout"
        ...
        Option       "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
EndSection
 
wblock@ said:
Disabling HAL for input device detection may also be required.
xorg.conf
Code: 
Section "ServerLayout"
        ...
        Option       "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
EndSection
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Thanks, only after this step has been performed the touchpad stopped working.
Disabling moused in rc.conf didn't give any results, moreover right now moused is continuing working in the background:

Code: 
> ps wwaux | grep moused
root        1988   0.0  0.0  14368   1440  ??  Ss    4:11PM  0:00.24 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums0.pid

Okay, I'm happy now until I have USB mouse nearby, but can I switch the touch pad on/off more easily without having to change xorg.conf ?

Why doesn't a dedicated combination Fn+F3 work ? Who should listen to it ?

My laptop is: DELL Inspiron N5110ServerLayout
 
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