From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 13 02:14:23 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 8AC4416A4DA for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:14:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF8E43D45 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:14:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 27880 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2006 12:14:21 +1000 Received: from 203-217-60-227.dyn.chime.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.217.60.227) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Aug 2006 12:14:21 +1000 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:14:17 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Kevin Oberman" Message-ID: <20060813121417.33097dc2@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060813004838.C613745055@ptavv.es.net> References: <20060813001634.GA11474@thought.org> <20060813004838.C613745055@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List , Peter Sandilands 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 02:14:23 -0000 On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:48:38 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" 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