Ubuntu amazes me…
every day more and more.
Yesterday, when I was trying to “deploy” my VGA-out script for my R60. I encountered a script that should enable the Fn+F8 key (disable touchpad).
After reading the header comment of the script I realized that changing a value from 0 to 1 should do the trick, and it did. A week ago I was thinking of writing one. 
Anyway, the “deploy” didn’t succeed, because aticonfig needs to be executed in userspace. 