Disable touchpad on Dell E6410 (Squeeze)

[Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com>]

Previously I had a Thinkpad and /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a synaptics
configuration.  I could disable the touchpad with this command:

/usr/bin/synclient "TouchpadOff=`/usr/bin/synclient -l | sed -ne
's/\(TouchpadOff *= *\)\([01]\)/\2/p' | sed -e 'y/01/10/'`"


Now I have a Dell E6410 with Squeeze (and no xorg.conf) and I get

$ Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

when I try the same.

How do I load synaptics without /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Regards
Johann

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