Enable/disable touchpad

[Timothy Murphy]

Eric Griffith wrote:

> There's a general thought that if you expose a control knob for it then
> people will assume that changing it is a supported action and if it
> doesn't work as expected then that's a bug to be fixed because all
> configurations are equal and should be equally supported. People used this
> mentality to come up with very strange synaptics config files that were
> not supported at all, but they would show up anyway screaming about
> support.

I just want to turn the touchpad off - as I imagine do many ThinkPad owners
who use the ThinkPad pointer as a alternative to the touchpad.

Surely that could not cause any of these philosophical difficulties?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin