Turning on and off HP Probook 4530S touchpad

Question

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?

Solution

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.

Comments

[Daniel]

I also tried to install SLED drivers from HP site using one guide for that (first I converted rpm to deb and then installed them, but that didn't fix the problem, I just have "Touchpad" in unity, when I'm typing "synaptics" but when I clicked - nothing happened.)

[Luka Ramishvili]

Don't install touchpad-indicator. It will mess up your installation and not add any significant options.

[Daniel]

Yes, I've tried to do this... Unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem. But either way thanks for help.

[klenwell]

Yes, I still encounter the problem, too, though perhaps less frequently. Frustrating.

[Luka Ramishvili]

Sadly, the link is broken.