[ltp] trackpoint unresponsive and jumpy

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 06 Jul 2003 17:44:27 +0100


Dear Martin,

Take a look at my Thinkpad page for what I did - see:
http://www.richard.neill.hemscott.net/a22p-mdk9-1.html

Or look at tp4d.

Good Luck!

Richard



Martin Gramatke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> compared with windows my trackpoint installation is quite bad. I have to
> push it much harder and it jumps at higher speeds. I tried to fine tune the
> setting in KDE's control panel, but nothing is as good as under windows. 
> 
> How do you get the best results? Are there some other tools?
> 
> Here are my insufficient, too slow settings:
> 
> XF86Config:
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> KDE Control Center-->Peripherals-->Mouse--Advanced:
> Pointer Accel: 4
> Pointer Thres: 2
> 
> With higher acceleration the pointer becomes jumpy. Also the knob is still
> much less sensitive than under windows.
> 
> BTW, I have a thinkpad X24.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> mg
>