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!
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!