[SLE] Troubles with touchy touchpad

From: Simon Roberts (thorpflyer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/06/05

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    Hi all,

    I have a 9.3 installation on a Toshiba Sattelite laptop, and the
    touchpad is really twichy. The touchpad is configured so that it
    recognizes "tap" gestures, and also some kind of "tap and drag" or
    maybe a simulated scroll-wheel. These are a real pain in the whatnot,
    as they cause unwanted clicks while I'm just moving the pointer across
    the screen, and sometimes cause some real high-jinks when it goes into
    the undetermined draggy/scrolly mode.

    I went into SaX2 and turned off all that I could turn off (which only
    appeared to be third button emulation and scroll-wheel), and rebooted
    but nothing changed.

    How can I turn off these gestures and just have plain movement on the
    touch pad (there are physical buttons below the pad, so I don't need
    these gestures anyway).

    TIA,
    Cheers,
    Simon

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