[ltp] 760XL Mouse cursor drifting

Mike Johnson linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
08 Apr 2002 17:32:41 +0200


Nope, not a hardware problem. If you read your user
manual it tells you that the trackpoint will do this
occasionally. As a previous poster said, the trackpoint
is just recalibrating.

Mike.

On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 17:26, Rikki Hall wrote:
> This happens to me as well.  It seems to happen when the machine is on an
> irregular surface, and lifting the machine usually stops the drift.  I
> think that the mouse device sometimes gets pinched by the machine casing
> and generates a spurious movement signal.  In other words, it's a hardware
> problem.
> 
> Rikki Hall
> 
> 
> 
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