Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 07/10/2015 02:26 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Jape Person wrote:
> > One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the
> > intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for updating
> > the microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely possible
> > that a fix in the microcode update is defeating your attempt at
> > turning the touchpad off
>
> Meh, I've had weird things blamed on the *-microcode packages before,
> but THAT is a new one :-)

Well, I did use the descriptions "far-fetched" and "remotely possible" . 
I couldn't help expressing the paranoia. I took my kids to see The Blob 
(original version) when I was a young adult. Blobs scare me -- maybe 
even more than they scare my kids.

8-(

...

> > You could also make sure that you're running the latest version of
> > the BIOS,
>
> That's pretty much a non-optional rule for thinkpads, *especially*
> recently lauched ones.  Keep your firmware up-to-date.

Tee-hee. Well at least I got one thing right.

Jape