[ltp] ThinkPad R31 Information

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Knott wrote:
> Paul Sladen wrote:
> > http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/thinkpad.html
> Everything appears fine, except the trackpoint is so erratic as to be
> unusable.

Try disabling whatever is constantly polling APM---probably some type of
status-tray / battery monitor Applet.

The PS/2, keyboard scan, power management and the like are all appear to be
handled by a single Super I/O chip which seems to go to pot if the APM is
being queried at that moment and something like mouse/keyboard movement
occurs.

These symptoms have come up on the Linux/R31 list a couple of times;

  http://www.vobcopy.org/pipermail/r31/

HTH,
	-Paul
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