Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:09:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> Cc: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cursor (trackpoint) "creep" with moused? Message-ID: <20020830090650.J35161-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <20020829210926.GA8636@tp.databus.com>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Barney Wolff wrote: > 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. > Toshiba trackpoints will ocasionally recalibrate themselves, which manifests as about 5 seconds of creep - longer if you try and fight it :). At least on toshiba my porteget 300CT and 320CT laptops lthis is so, and I hear from many other toshiba users that this is 'normal'. As for minutes of creep (the original poster mentioned it fixing itself after 45 seconds...) I couldn't imagine what is happening. Have you tried another operating system to rule out the possibility of hardware problems? Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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