In message , W. eWatson
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I wish I had my Gateway manuals with me. In any case, I tried every
blue F-key and otherwise, and found nothing to indicate the pad was
disabled. It did rattle me a little when f3 turned the screen black. I

(Did you find what that is _supposed_ to do?)

had to press the power button to get on. Then I got a little rattled
again when I started to get numbers instead of letters when I tried
typing a response here. The Scroll blue key is actually numlock. My
wife noticed that. F4 sort of look like the right key. It has a
rectangle with an ellipse in it, slash, then just a rectangle. It
didn't help.

I think that's display switch - switch between laptop screen and
external monitor, or toggle external monitor off/on, or cycle round
between external/laptop/both. Does rectangle-with-ellipse have another
rectangle under it, i. e. crude drawing of laptop?

Maybe I can find the manual on Gateway's site.

Have you tried just disabling one of your two mice (you said you had a
PS/2 and a HID one according to Display Manager) to see if one is the
touchpad?
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