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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:24:40 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000). ARGH! 
Message-ID:  <200007221724.LAA01527@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
References:  <29734.964235079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200007220356.MAA21138@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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> >The symtoms under X is the cursor slowly creeps downward and won't stay
> >put even when nothing is touching the little finger-force/joystick.  It
> >behaves as if it's lost its "center" spot.  I haven't figured out
> >when it starts doing this or what triggers it.
> >
> 
> My Thinkpad 560E exhibits this too.
> 
> As far as I know, this is a hardware glitch often seen with the
> stick-shaped pointing device found on many notebook computers.

Yes it is.  My previous company had hundreds of Thinkpads, and we sent
them back to IBM by the truckload to fix this.  My new Thinkpad (which
isn't very new anymore) appears to have fixed this problem.

(This problem happens in *all* OS's run on the machine, and is not
FreeBSD specific.)




Nate


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