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Re: "Cursor Creep"
According to my thinkpad 560 manual this is normal. Just take your finger
off for a moment. It will recalibrate, then stop.
At 10:24 PM 2/26/97 -0500, George Amrhein wrote:
>The following is a duplicate of a message that I originally sent to the
>wrong address. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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>When the cursor starts creeping while using the Trackpoint, temporarily
>putting the ThinkPad into "Suspend mode", by either closing the lid, or by
>pressing Fn + F4 from the keyboard, will cause the cursor to be stable
>again when the computer resumes from Suspend mode (after the lid is
>re-opened or by pressing Fn on the keyboard). The computer checks the
>position of the Trackpoint during the resume from Suspend & recalibrates
>the center to that location. (My computer is a 701cs. I do not know if other
>ThinkPad model Trackpoints behave identically to the one on this machine.)
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>If the cursor starts creeping during a session using the modem, etc., I
>usually tolerate it -- & keep a steady pressure on the Trackpoint to control
>the cursor -- until after logging off, because Suspend mode shuts down the
>modem.
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>Hope this helps.
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>GMA
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