[ltp] Mouse pointer slowly moves when not touching trackpoint

[Michael W. Holdeman]

I've had several TP units, 600X 600E, T20, T21.
They have all done this from time to time, but when they get to the edge of 
the screen, after a minute os so I can move them back to the center and they 
are fine.

Mike


On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:50 am, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I've had three TPs (600, 600x, & T40).  I've had this behavior on all of
> them under Linux, W95, W98, and W2K.  The owner's manual on the 600
> indicated that this is a known issue.
> Sorry that doesn't help, but at least you know you're not alone!
> Paul
>
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:00 am, Heiko Rosemann wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm currently experiencing a strange behaviour of my trackpoint: The X
> > mouse pointer sometimes slowly drifts to the left, even if I don't touch
> > the trackpoint at all. When this happens, the mouse button function of
> > the trackpoint (when pressing it) doesn't work, and it is easier to move
> > the pointer to the left than to the right.
> >
> > I haven't yet played around with the settings, just using tp4d -S 0xff on
> > a linux 2.4.23-rc1 slackware 9.1 box with X 4.3.0.
> >
> > The tp4d version is 1.2.6 2002/10/15, and I don't recall having such
> > problems on tty or on Windows XP (I'm running a dual-boot system) on my
> > X30.
> >
> > The box is not yet two months old, so I wouldn't really suspect this to
> > be a HW problem...
> >
> > Any thoughts anyone?
> >
> > Regards, Heiko

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