several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Gene Heskett]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Monday June 26 2006 23:32, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> and this goddamned touchpad on this lappy cannot be disabled, so parts
>> of the above line got overwritten when it decided to move the cursor
>> without bothering to advise me.  If someone can advise me on howto
>> disable it, I'll send them a jug of a local wine we think is pretty good
>> for a commodity wine.
> 
> Gene: Don't you have an HP Pavilion? It it's anything like my ZX5000 there's a 
> push button just above the touchpad that turns it off - it's probably not the 
> case here, but I mention it because, as in the famous Edgar Allan Poe 
> story "The Purloined Letter", the answer is sometimes staring you in the 
> face ;-) If HP removed that feature, I would find that very annoying - 
> sometimes I bump mine, or turn it on and forget to turn it off, and it always 
> bites me unexpectedly when it gets left on - I know that aggravation well.

Nope, no button on this one.  Darn it...

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Cheers, Gene