From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.192.10]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1811488 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:26:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4ACD3FB5.4090102@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:26:13 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] mouse or amouse? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow, this follow-up is late... Sorry... On 09/06/09 04:33 pm, Jon Harrison thus 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? > > Unless I have a compelling reason to switch, I stick with the IBM driver. I find that for TrackPoints, it seems to work best. > 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? > > Is POINTDD.SYS loaded? > 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. > > See above. Also, switch to the IBM driver; likely, you'll be glad you did. ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------