A "hardware" solution is to make a cardboard cover for the touchpad.
BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello, > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate touchpad. > My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. > I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware > failure, so I have to live/deal with it. > > > thanks > Bernd > -- Joel Roth