Asus Eee PC 1001HA: uncontrollably jumping cursor and difficulty to turn off/ on the touchpad

[Bas Roufs]

SOLVED.

> > Or is there any command line
> > script available which enables me to quickly turn off and turn on the
> > touchpad?
>
> I don't know if this would still be there on an EeePC, but on both of my
> laptops, by going to "System > Preferences > Mouse | Touchpad tab"
> there's a checkbox for "Disable touchpad while typing". Does this work
> for you?


Thanks for your input. In the mean time I have been pointed at this
special page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
Via the command line command 'syndaemon' as well as the graphical tool
'touchfreeze' I managed to solve the problem. Thanks, respectfully
yours,

Bas.