Hello, this is my first post. Please can someone help me out with a really annoying problem? My laptop came with Vista, which I didn't like at all, and so removed it. I have tried a few flavours of Linux on my Toshiba Equium laptop. I have now installed Opensuse 10.2 and I am very impressed with how everything was detected. I really, really like this operating system, but it has a really annoying problem; If I am entering text in any editor, Open Office or Kate, or even a form in Firefox, the insertion point will jump back a few lines, and so I find I'm typing in the middle of another sentence. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to this, I can't predict when it will happen but it does! in fact it's just done it now, and jumped back to where I mention Open Office. Help!

does it happen if you don't type any text ?

the reason for me asking is this: I'v seen some laptops whose touch-pads are a bit over sensitive, that is they react to keys pressed that are physically close. so if say key "J" was close to the the touchpad, the mouse would move a bit if "J" was pressed.

No, it only seems to do it when typing. At first I wondered if it was me being sloppy and catching the mouse pad, but no! It actually has just done it again, as I wrote the title.

I've sorted the problem! When I installed OpenSuse I thought because it had detected the graphics (confirmed by the manual), and the graphics looked fine, it would be ok. I then remembered when I once installed a version called OpenSuse Slick, from a disk on Linux Format magazine, I also had trouble with the graphics. So I have changed the settings from the original (LPL LGPHILIPSLCD), to just lcd 1280x800 60hhz.