Hi folks,

I'm running Debian Etch on a laptop which has a touchpad where the right-hand edge does that "scroll-wheel" thingy.

The problem is that, as I type, the ball of my right thumb tends to stroke that edge, often causing chaos in applications where the text-entry point can be moved around using the mouse (i.e. if that happens, suddenly I'm typing at the point where the mouse pointer happens to be lying around on the screen). It seems to be very sensitive.

I'd like to turn it off, but don't know how. Any suggestions?

And, by the way, as things are at present Debian is running in a VirtualBox which is running on Vista (a situation I intend to put right in due course); so the above problem may require a solution in Vista rather than in Debian.

Thanks for any thoughts, and best wishes to all, Ted.

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