How do you disable your synaptic trackpad in Ubuntu

[Ryan Pugatch]

On 02/11/2010 11:03 AM, David Kramer wrote:

> Well, that was part of my belayed rant.  There's nothing about mice in
> my xorg.conf.  And if I put one in there by hand, it's likely it would
> get overwritten by some program.
>

You can do it with hal then. 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#shmconfig