AntiX 23 Live (without persistence), on a machine with a buggy touchpad.

After boot, one can go to Applications>Preferences>Mouse to disable touchpad, but it'd be nice to set beforehand.

I checked the boot params docs, but can't tell if any of the options provide a way to disable the touchpad prior to booting (i.e. when setting lang/kbd layout).

Is there one?

Is it possible to turn off the touchpad in bios before boot?

I am not aware of any F key boot cheat code for the mouse either.

I am kinda wondering why. When you turn off the mouse after boot. Your saved settings in persistence does not keep it.

Edit. My bad. I thought read a persistent usb install.

Other then that. Saved changes on a live session show up on the installer. As a check box.

It is near the end of the install process. Here is a screenshot


https://www.unixmen.com/install-anti...er-accounts-2/

This thread started today. Might help. Might not.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/to...able-live-usb/

The install process is irrelevant, I'm asking about boot options on a stock unmodified AntiX Live, without persistence of any kind.

The BIOS allows setting the system clock, password, and boot device order - that's it.

There is also no Fn+F key option for disabling touchpad.


By checking "lsmod" I identified there's a module called "psmouse" (not "pmouse" as some search results suggested), and using "blacklist=psmouse" will disable the touchpad.

Blacklisting the module also disables the left/right buttons below the pad - a tad inconvenient but not surprising.

(There's also a module "mousedev" - blacklisting that had no effect.)

If you have to interrupt boot and add a paramater, isn't it just as easy to run a command after boot?

"xinput --disable 13" works for me. (xinput list to figure out which number to disable).

It's only typing a couple of words at a point when there's a long timeout, so not really an interruption. (Plus I'm already setting keyboard layout there.)

Also, turns out there's no xinput pre-installed with AntiX, otherwise that would have been a valid backup.

Figured I'd check the Applications>Preferences>Mouse source - that's a Python application ds-mouse which ultimately runs "synclient TouchpadOff=1" so the boot option is still easier to type.