Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:54:36PM +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> I had the same sort of issue with a Dell Precision M70 laptop. The 
> answer was to change the touchpad setting in the BIOS setup program. The 
> wording on this one (which is actually a Lat. D810 or somesuch 
> motherboard / BIOS) I had to look at the boot behavior of the touchpad. 
> The choices weren't exactly what I would have expected. They were along 
> the lines of:
> 
> 1. touchpad enabled
> 2. touchpad disabled when PS/2 mouse is connected
> 3. serial mouse
> 
> The one that succeeded in disabling the touchpad was the serial mouse 
> setting.
> 

Thanks Gilbert.  That has disabled the touchpad.  Now let us hope the other
keyboard-problems will come to an end.  Immediately as I type this, it feels
if the keyboard reaction is faster and so far I did not miss a character.

Regards
Johann
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