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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:14:17 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>, Peter Sandilands <peter@sandilands.vu>
Subject:   Re: 3 years and going strong!
Message-ID:  <20060813121417.33097dc2@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20060813004838.C613745055@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20060813001634.GA11474@thought.org> <20060813004838.C613745055@ptavv.es.net>

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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:48:38 -0700
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:

> 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.

the thinkpad Z60 series (at least the m models) also have both the touchpad and
the joystick with 3 buttons

> 
> 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.

i *guess* it's because the touchpad has only 2 buttons (+ the tap- mode on the
pad itself), and to moused , the pad and joystick is seen as only 1 device ...
i'd love to be proven wrong though. I just disabled the pad in the BIOS and
moved on ;)

beto




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