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>A small but extremely irritating problem: I run Redhat 6.1 on my VAIO
>Z505RX. Often when typing rapidly in emacs my text entry point jumps to
>whever the mouse cursor sits. The problem seems to be my thumbs
>accidently touch the touchpad. I have tried repeatedly to turn off the
>touchpad (for tapping) from the Windows partition, as well as telling it
>to be inoperable when typing. Whenever I reboot in Linux, however, the
>problem returns.
>Does anyone know how to turn off the touchpad tapping for good? Is there
>a way to do so from within Linux?
The easiest way to deal with this problem is to use an external mouse.
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