From: "madodel" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2038652 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:18:12 -0400 Received: from static-71-171-102-26.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([71.171.102.26] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1KacKI-00081a-So for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:18:12 -0400 Received: from pm10.mailnet.ptd.net ([204.186.29.232]:57804) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KacKC-0000Il-14 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com CTCH-RefID str=0001.0A01020A.48BD9F7C.00AC:SCFSTAT2007473,ss=1,fgs=0; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:18:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 16717 invoked by uid 50005); 2 Sep 2008 20:18:03 -0000 Received: from 24.238.79.4 by pm10.mailnet.ptd.net (envelope-from , uid 50002) with qmail-scanner-2.02 (clamdscan: 0.93.3/8129. Clear:RC:0(24.238.79.4):. Processed in 0.013608 secs); 02 Sep 2008 20:18:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.209]) (authenticated:madodel@[24.238.79.4]) (envelope-sender ) by pm10.mailnet.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 Sep 2008 20:18:03 -0000 Message-ID: <48BD9F7A.5020400@ptdprolog.net> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:18:02 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (OS/2/20080715) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] installing acpi w/ rc5 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > On 09/02/08 02:54 pm, Greg Jarvis thus wrote : >> On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:46:38 -0700 (PDT), Jon Harrison wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:03:54 +0200 (CEST), Frank Vos wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The correct line in config.sys should be: >>>> DEVICE=C:\AMouse\AMOUSE.SYS SMP >>>> >>> Frank: >>> >>> I checked my config.sys and that parameter is present. I also note >>> that I have another line in my config.sys for ..\amouse\usbmouse.sys. I >>> assume this is correct also but find it interesting that 2 drivers >>> are loaded for the mouse. >>> >>> I've been computing along now for a few hours, including a reboot or >>> two and the system is more stable than I can recall. However, I really >>> miss that external mouse! >>> >>> Jon >>> >> >> Hi >> >> Try installing rc5 with another driver. In install setup you can chose >> another mouse driver. >> >> > Indeed. Chuck and I have both found the IBM mouse driver to be more > "predictable" on ThinkPads in general (I know he's mentioned the T61 to > me, but I've found it that way for some time). Try the IBM single mouse > driver, Jon, and see how that works for you. Just curious. > I have had the same experience with both my T42p and my T61. I needed to switch to the IBM smouse driver instead of amouse. Which was strange because I had used amouse for years on other systems without a problem. But with the amouse the trackpoint didn't work right on either Thinkpad, but works fine with smouse. Mark