I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my HP laptop and among some problems, one of which I'm trying to solve is the touchpad problem. It's working, but how can I turn on/off it?
In SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (which was preinstalled) and Windows, the touchpad is enabled/disabled by touching the left upper corner, when small diode is situated. In Ubuntu, I touched that area many times, but nothing happened.
Do anybody know how to solve the problem?
Problem is still unsolved.
But if nobody has any thoughts about how to fix that - here is a possible solutions to help those, who can see this topic (guys from russian linux forums helped me).
You can type in your console:
syndaemon -t -i 2 -d
This means, that your touchpad will be disabled until 2 seconds after your typing will passed.
But there is a way to fix problems with turning off\on your touchpad and with enabling LED works properly... But this way is complicated. You must download this patches http://abhinandh.com/post/4336662463/getting-the-double-tap-on-the-led-to-disable-touchpad One patch is for kernel and one for xorg server. Also you have to change function parameters.
I was just looking up this same issue for my HP g7. Have you tried the suggestion posted here:
https://askubuntu.com/a/85866/46766
It's not a completely satisfactory solution as it does not re-enable the upper-left corner "diode". But it sounds like it may reduce incidents where brushing the keypad while typing makes a mess of everything.
I've an HP G62 laptop, and I had the same problem. I resolved installing touchpad-indicator, which let you disable and enable the touchpad with a shortcut (for example, I use ctrl+alt+p to do that).
To install it you should follow the same instructions:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator
It's available both for 11.10 and for 12.04, now.
