[SOLVED] Is there an AntiX Live boot option to disable touchpad?
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Is there an AntiX Live boot option to disable touchpad?
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).
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.)
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.
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