[ltp] 760XL Mouse cursor drifting

[Richard Neill]

Just for those who aren't already aware of it, there is an excellent 
little program tp4d which allows the Trackpint sttings to be adjusted. 
In particular, you can make it more sensitive, and enable the z-axis.

It's at:  http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/tp4utils/

Richard


jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:
> Jim:
> 
> This is normal for almost all Thinkpads.  The 'mouse' recalibrates itself every once in a while. While annoying, this should not stop you from using your Thinkpad 
pointing device.  DO NOT attempt to correct this as it will lengthen the 
calibration cycle.
> 
> James Mckenzie
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Jim Redmond jim@scrubnugget.com
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:13:12 -0500
> To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> Subject: [ltp] 760XL Mouse cursor drifting
> 
> 
> This isn't a major problem, but it sure can be annoying.
> 
>>From time to time the mouse cursor on my 760XL will spontaneously begin
> to drift in one direction (usually up).  It drifts at a constant speed,
> without acceleration, for 10-20 seconds before stopping abruptly. 
> During this time I can still use the mouse if I factor the drift vector
> into my finger movement.
> 
> (Technically, it's not a mouse, but one of those keyboard joysticks
> whose name I can't remember.  You get the point though.)
> 
> This problem began over the weekend, not long after I removed gpm (using
> apt-get remove) and compiled a new kernel (2.2.20).  However, my XFree
> config remained untouched, there doesn't seem to be any particular
> program which triggers it, and the physical environment remained fairly
> constant the whole time.
> 
> I'm using Debian (potato) and GNOME.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?  Again, it's not critical, just
> annoying.
> 




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