Can I disable glide pad laptop mouse?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Marshall Neill <ramien43 at windstream.net> wrote:
> lmao    ...   sorry man..
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
>
I have a nastier issue where touching the pad grabs focus and never
releases, which automatically implies the need to reboot (I guess the
guys at HP messed up their design by a couple of millimetres). I tried
the
xinput set-prop 15 "Device Enabled" 0

suggested above, and the only issue with that is that after a
suspend/resume cycle the pad gets re-enabled anyway.

I'm pretty sure that the pad can be disabled by removing some module
from the kernel, but I couldn't find any guidance on this. Ideas?
Liviu