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drsp

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XF86TouchpadOn

Hi. I've got an Acer Aspire something-or-other, and the hardware button to enable and disable the touchpad did not produce the desired result.
Basically, it wouldn't enable again.

Aside from a reboot, the only way i found to enable the touchpad after pressing the hardware button was to remove and insert the module again:

sudo modprobe psmouse -r &&sudo modprobe psmouse

This led me to use xbindkeys to automate this:

#~/.xbindkeysrc
"sudo modprobe psmouse -r &&sudo modprobe psmouse"
XF86TouchpadOn

#/etc/sudoers
drsp ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/modprobe

However, this method is both slow and insecure. It takes about 2 seconds to activate the touchpad.
Does anyone have a better solution?