Typing/Keyboard problems!

[hairy]

Ignoring the fact that I am a rubbish typer, I am having some problems with my keyboard on my T42P and would appreciate any help at all!

The problem is that while I am typing along, the flashing cursor thing would suddenly/randomly change its position to earlier on in the paragraph.

As I have mentioned, I am not a great typist and I would often look at the keys while I type; this would mean if the problem occurs, I wouldnt know about it until I look up and realise I had been typing over what had been typed already!

I am very sure that my palms/fingers are at the right place and typing the correct keys, so can this be a hardware fault, or lack of drivers as I had reformtted the drive since taking delivery of my TP?
I havent installed any of the keyboard customiser stuff nor any of the ultranav drivers....

Again, any help or advice would be much appreciated!

[ian]

Installed or not, it's probably the Ultranav that's causing the problem - or rather, the proximity of your fingers to the touch-pad. Go into the config utility and turn it off...of course then you'll need an external mouse.

[Ghostrider]

I'd guess that it is the touchpad you hit just very slight with your thumbs or something else. This happend to me several times when I had a notebook in the past and I do not have to look on the keyboard while typing...
Switch off the touchpad and I am pretty sure that this "problem" will be solved at once! If you are able to lower the sensitivity of the thouchpad this would also do the job just fine.

[hairy]

Thanks for all the help!
Following your advice, I installed the UltraNav driver and discovered the Palmcheck feature which I was able to use to "guard against operating the TouchPad with accidental contact".
I have moved the slider all the way into the red-zone to decrease sensitivity and it seems to have done the trick so far! woohoo!

[ian]

One of the positive/negative things about Thinkpads is that virtually everything has a parameter just waiting to be changed (played with) - the trouble is just how to go about doing it. Glad the suggestions worked for you - failing this, just increase Talisker input - works everytime for me ! (Typing's crap - but OH what beautiful colours ...)