disable touchpad Fedora 21

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Thank you for your advice. I DID use this "Touchpad Indicator" extension on 2 different PCs with 3 different distros. It worked "as advertised" in 1 and did not work in 2 cases. That is a failure ratio of 66%. Not very attractive when you are looking for a RELIABLE tool for work.

AND this does neither explain nor excuse the fact, that the OS does neither recognize a working piece of hardware, nor allow any settings related to that hardware = touchpad. Since the hardware is there and working .. it should AT LEAST show up under "Mouse and Touchpad", shouldn't it?

Anyway, there were a whole bunch of other malfunctions with Fedora, like it froze constantly (and I MEAN constantly!), it did not allow any updates (said: "The package IDs are not valid". How am I to know the IDs of about 450 packaged to be updated??), installation of ...(more)

Thank you for your advice. I DID use this "Touchpad Indicator" extension on 2 different PCs with 3 different distros. It worked "as advertised" in 1 and did not work in 2 cases. That is a failure ratio of 66%. Not very attractive when you are looking for a RELIABLE tool for work.

AND this does neither explain nor excuse the fact, that the OS does neither recognize a working piece of hardware, nor allow any settings related to that hardware = touchpad. Since the hardware is there and working .. it should AT LEAST show up under "Mouse and Touchpad", shouldn't it?

Anyway, there were a whole bunch of other malfunctions with Fedora, like it froze constantly (and I MEAN constantly!), it did not allow any updates (said: "The package IDs are not valid". How am I to know the IDs of about 450 packaged to be updated??), installation of ...(more)