From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 0:42:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178F637B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nimitz.osl.fast.no (mailoslo.fast.no [217.144.235.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1103D43E4A for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Raymond.Wiker@fast.no) Received: from raw.grenland.fast.no.fast.no (raw.grenland.fast.no [192.168.48.104]) by nimitz.osl.fast.no (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7U7cqTo020162; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:38:52 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from Raymond.Wiker@fast.no) X-Authentication-Warning: nimitz.osl.fast.no: Host raw.grenland.fast.no [192.168.48.104] claimed to be raw.grenland.fast.no.fast.no From: Raymond Wiker MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15727.8674.583825.783737@raw.grenland.fast.no> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:42:26 +0200 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cursor (trackpoint) "creep" with moused? In-Reply-To: <20020829210926.GA8636@tp.databus.com> References: <20020829205242.92826A9@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> <20020829210926.GA8636@tp.databus.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barney Wolff writes: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:52:42PM -0400, Andy Sparrow wrote: > > > > I'm just curious as to why this might be - the trackpoint "creep", that > > is - does anyone have any ideas? :-) > > I've experienced the same effect on a Toshiba laptop running W2k, so > perhaps it's the device, not anything fbsd-specific. Some of my colleagues have seen this on their Dell notebooks running W2K & Win XP. One of them has had the entire keyboard assembly replaced, twice, because of this problem. Soooo, I would say it's likely to be a hardware problem. -- Raymond Wiker Mail: Raymond.Wiker@fast.no Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.fast.no/ Fast Search & Transfer ASA Phone: +47 23 01 11 60 P.O. Box 1677 Vika Fax: +47 35 54 87 99 NO-0120 Oslo, NORWAY Mob: +47 48 01 11 60 Try FAST Search: http://alltheweb.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message