turning off the touchpad [solved]

[Aleksander Alekseev]

> This turns out to be easy. I got pointed to the answer from the freebsd-x11 
> list. Use 'xinput list' to get the id of the psm device and then
> 
>     xinput set-prop 8 "Device Enabled" 0
> 
> will disable it. I suppose that means adding an InputDevice section to 
> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ should also work. I could not figure out the 
> options from the man page however.

Note that this can turn off not only touchpad but all mouse devices in
your system. I personally turn off touchpad this way:

```
sysctl hw.psm.synaptics.touchpad_off=1
```

This will not work unless you have:

```
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
```

... in your /boot/loader.conf

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev