From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 8: 7:47 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 247F237B401 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net [198.65.168.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43E343E6A for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C303BF15C for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:07:43 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7UF7g318697; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:07:42 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:09:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-X-Sender: To: Barney Wolff Cc: Andy Sparrow , Subject: Re: Cursor (trackpoint) "creep" with moused? In-Reply-To: <20020829210926.GA8636@tp.databus.com> Message-ID: <20020830090650.J35161-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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