From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.158.111.212]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2042245 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:45:22 -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: <5141-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC4E84804@[10.158.111.212]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:44:47 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:21:08 -0400 "Lewis G Rosenthal" wrote: >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. This behavior has been normal for quite some time, in fact. Scan the following link for "TrackPoint checkout" toward the bottom of the page: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/DJON-3LVPK6.html ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail