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  1. Bug #156934
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Comment 1 for bug 156934

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Ryan P. Bitanga (ephebiphobic) wrote :

Check your xorg.conf in /etc/X11/.

The touchpad should have a the SHMConfig property set to "on". So it would look like:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

That should help with disabling the touchpad. Also check if you have the synclient binary in your path.