From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.148.90.71]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2042236 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:27:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: SnapperMail 2.3.7.01 by Snapperfish To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Mice (was Re: [eCS T60/T61] installing acpi w/ rc5 Message-ID: <5134-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC4E843E8@[10.148.90.71]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:21:08 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:11:28 -0400 "Julian Thomas" wrote: >In , on 09/02/08 > at 03:39 PM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" typed: >>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. > >On this T60 I have the standard IBM driver and also USBmouse. Works OK >with either the trackpoint or the external mouse (I use the trackpoint; MJ >uses the rodent) with the external plugged in. > >Only problem is that sometimes the trackpoint cursor wanders; I believe >this is a hardware/bios issue. At any rate I can usually cure it for a >while by slamming the pointer against an edge of the screen. > Julian, that is a normal function of the trackpoint. It is self-adjusting. The best practice is to let it move where it wants to go, & when it stops, take it from there. I'll look up the link on the IBM site when I have a moment a little later on. ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail