From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 22 16:10:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEDD937B5D1 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 40529 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Jul 2000 23:10:32 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:10:31 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! Message-ID: <20000722191031.B31658@shell.wetworks.org> References: <29734.964235079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 12:56:48PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An SMTP stream claimed that Kazutaka YOKOTA muttered: > As far as I know, this is a hardware glitch often seen with the > stick-shaped pointing device found on many notebook computers. The > stick appears to be generating the "down" signal even when it is > supposed to be in the "neutral" position. This is a hardware glitch > which surfaces from time to time. I've found that I can trigger this "glitch" by keeping a steady pressure in any direction on the 'knob'. After a few seconds, the hardware sees the constand motion as an offset that needs to be corrected for. When you release pressure on the pointer, it moves in the opposite direction at the same rate of speed. I actually found myself faking out the hardware out of pure boredom (see how fast you can get it to go in reverse). AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message