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[itismike <646860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Claudio. I followed your link on the forum to this bug. According to Google Image Search, the Acer Aspire 8530G, like most laptops, has a 'Touchpad' in the middle of the palm rest. Is it possible that this 'capricious behavior' could be explained by resting your palms on the palm rest and accidentally activating the touchpad while typing? This is a very common behavior and there is a setting to reduce or eliminate this problem (look under System > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad.) 
Try placing a thick piece of cardboard on your palm rest (the touchpad might sense through a thin piece,) and see if the problem goes away. If it does, and the setting above doesn't make a difference, this may be a duplicate of bug #27541.

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Touch-pad crazy with Ubuntu 10.04 on laptop Aspire 8530
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646860
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