From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2850552 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:18:20 -0400 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:18:06 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] mouse or amouse? Message-ID: On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:33:03 -0700 (PDT), Jon Harrison wrote: >Somewhere in the past I read a reference referring to the preferred mouse drive for the TP. > >Silver set up my T61 with amouse. > >I am wondering if I should leave it be or switch to the IBM Mouse? > >2 issues: > >I am using comet cursor (so I can find the pointer on the screen!). It *never* holds between reboots. I have to toggle the setting off & on again >in the amouse properties. Anyone else notice this? > >Under rc6a I could utilize the middle mouse key on the T61. Now I can't get it to function correctly even though I've fiddled with various >settings in the amouse setup. FWIW, I use the IBM Mouse [10.163] on my T60 and have had good results. OTOH, my wife's desktop system has AMouse and experiences the same erratic behavior with a real mouse as you describe. I keep meaning to switch it to the IBM mouse, but just have not thought about it when I've had the time. -- Carl