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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:24:26 -0500 (EST), John Kim wrote: >On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Bryan Daum wrote: >> >> A second question from a pal who says his 701C/24 meg finds the trackpoint >> arrow frozen when reopening the screen after having suspended (close lid). >> Mine doesn't do this ever...oh, he finds this while using Word 6 and Win 311. > >Normally you'd think this is a mouse driver problem. But the >701 uses a hardware mouse - Windows only reports the mouse >position to the video card, the card draws the mouse. In a ways, true, but technically it is a PS/2 mouse, which uses IRQ 12 for those who are curious. So what >could be happening is the graphic of the mouse is not being >redrawn after a resume, even though the pointer is really there. >Try "moving" the mouse around and clicking to bring up a menu or >highlight something. I've often gotten past this problem in >Win3.1 by slowly "moving" the mouse past a frame or something >that changes the shape of the mouse pointer. This seems to >refresh the mouse pointer graphic, making it visible again. > >Dunno if an updated video driver will help. That could also be a problem. Or try and backlog to where it wasn't a problem, and try to single it out that way. Paul