From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 13 04:42:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F8016A4DE for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B962743D4C for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:42:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id RMD00721; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:42:21 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id B60B945056; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:42:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Gary Kline In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:53:56 PDT." <20060813025356.GA11876@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:42:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20060813044220.B60B945056@ptavv.es.net> Cc: Peter Sandilands , FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: 3 years and going strong! X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:42:38 -0000 > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 05:48:38PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:35:22AM +1000, Peter Sandilands wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, you guys. I don't have anything against > 866, etc. > > > I just figured that anything over a GHz *had* to have been > > > "upgraded" to the std scratch-pad. If not, then wow! > > > > Gary, > > > > As far as i know, all ThinkPads still use the TrackPoint(tm). IBM invented it > > and it is quite popular. Seems to be a binary function. You love it or you > > hate it. I have not met anyone who was in the "don't care" category. > > > :-) > > I've only talked to one other person, and she said she hates it! > As well as vi and my Unix in general. For me, altho the > TrackPoint is harder to use than a mouse, on a laptop it's great > to have a pointer to actually direct the cursor in a steady > stroke. > > > > > My fairly shiny new T43 has one as does a co-worker's new T60. I don't know > > about the new, low-cost 3000 series, but I believe that all other ThinkPads > > have a track point as do many Dell and HP systems. Probably other brands, too. > > > > > > Oddly, the scratch-pad must be disabled to enable the middle button. This has > > never made sense to me, but it seems that is the way it is. > > > So how to you emulate the mid-button: press 1 + 2 simultaneously? > ...It's going to be interesting; at least I'm not looking for > awhile. If you don't disable the scragtch-pad, pressing 1 and 2 is the only option. It's easier to do that with the two buttons below the scratch-pad than the three above it. But you can disable and re-enable at will. The newer systems let yo udo it at boot time or with the ps2 utility in Windows or DOS. Don't know what all systems have a real boot-time BIOS setting capability, but the T43 does. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751