this screwed some stuff up and didn't solve my problem. (When your computer does not have the hot key or the hot key did not correct the issue proceed to the next step.) 2.
I've been looking at solutions for getting the touchpad correctly recognized and not achieved it yet - seems there is a problem at the kernel level.I tried (foolishly) a suggestion to replace the psmouse.ko driver. Some computers have a touchpad disable and enable hot key, refer to User's Manual of your laptop to see if your computer has this hot key and how to use it. So any adjustments made with various settings programs to the 'touchpad' don't affect it. OK it turns out that this is a somewhat known problem - it seems the touchpad is not being recognized as a touchpad, it is seen as a PS/2 mouse.
I open up 'Mouse and Touchpad' and on the Touchpad tab I check 'Disable touchpad when typing' and UNcheck 'Enable mouse clicks with touchpad'. So I want to disable the tap-as-click (after all, I have buttons for clicks too). Mostly things are working well, but I have a problem with the touchpad (or whatever it's called) - whenever I use it for moving the mouse pointer I accidentally tap on it - basically I am clicking all over the place by accident. New Laptop - Toshiba Tecra R850 with an install of Oneiric 64 bit. I know there's a lot of similar questions, but nothing I have tried here works yet - perhaps I was doing it wrong.
