Can I temporarily disable a xorg input device driver?

[Bernhard Prell]

On Thursday 21 October 2010 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
>     xinput set-prop <device name> "Device Enabled" 0
> 
> should do the job. it relies on the driver being implemented correctly,
> i.e. releasing the device on DEVICE_OFF and taking it up again on
> DEVICE_ON. not sure about this driver in particular though, but the more
> common drivers do this correctly.
> 

Thank you very much - it worked and that was what I was looking for! Great!

Cheers

Bernhard