Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! Message-ID: <200007221724.LAA01527@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <29734.964235079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> >The symtoms under X is the cursor slowly creeps downward and won't stay > >put even when nothing is touching the little finger-force/joystick. It > >behaves as if it's lost its "center" spot. I haven't figured out > >when it starts doing this or what triggers it. > > > > My Thinkpad 560E exhibits this too. > > As far as I know, this is a hardware glitch often seen with the > stick-shaped pointing device found on many notebook computers. Yes it is. My previous company had hundreds of Thinkpads, and we sent them back to IBM by the truckload to fix this. My new Thinkpad (which isn't very new anymore) appears to have fixed this problem. (This problem happens in *all* OS's run on the machine, and is not FreeBSD specific.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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