770 cursor drift

[Bruce Cowan]

I would echo Bill Ball's statement - drift is normal and it will settle
if you leave it alone for a few moments. Every thinkpad I've ever seen
does this. Also, if you fight the drift, you will end up breaking the
stick - it seems to get into a state where it will never stop drifting,
then you get to send your machine in for repair. At least this happened
to almost everyone I know who ignored my advice to just leave the
pointer alone until it settled.

-Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: William H. Ball [mailto:bball@staffnet.com]
Sent: Monday, 05 July 1999 9:34
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Re: 770 cursor drift


Paul Kotyk wrote:
> 
>         I'm having a problem on this ThinkPad with the mouse pointer
drifting very
> slowly across the screen. This is not a consistent problem  but occurs
more
> often than not. It is not operating system specific and occurs with RH 6
> and NT. I've installed the TrackPoint NT driver. Anyone else with the same
> problem?

i notice this on my i1720 and i1451... seems to be normal... just let it
drift, 
and the pointer will settle after 1/8" movement...


> 
> Regards, Paul
> 
> Paul Kotyk
> Nornet System Integrators
> mailto:nornet@interlog.com