Path: csiph.com!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: rhkramer@gmail.com Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 13:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Sat Sep 5 11:17:53 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.329 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-2.13, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SUBENDNUM=2] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=K2VaIokWooXUi3km1tvNtGYa5++4AYQRZu4Uee/t3oM=; b=ZjK4M1V7bsxJXtsuvoTt9mbbNTKecbZ6Ka7oyQ0DklnLsCMFbwHQLivlcZ3r4wOm0N TvyCaMbgxK4veap8jy3KJ5WYbnkoKUNSmM8fKlZVJvLeZp5jmNvJXo+phiiGBEpVNZ1M zbWQmSARY/rNH+dlMB6JxbhILXzPkKf5UKs60MONwV8NeIKtTCXL3laHCXFrzd3yMjN9 oFB8VmewA4D2mjfUCTMJM9JNJ50e1YR7QR19R0U5aOUddNP1Tu+c0Z3nB+zLOel2+A9U JB5AXp32Xz0MP/jfXtjchzuOJuKYtnDBgZ8CELVJF7xPQWiT94/mv7EkL5s94I+FdWpN eB2A== X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=K2VaIokWooXUi3km1tvNtGYa5++4AYQRZu4Uee/t3oM=; b=dMmDtb6lXJ9l/nJe7FxWNqU6cM+VRWdMt/IbJHSTcjq3AEloELexUbe/eXmBakgdan 7zvOsCFXm6Crqu7OFJbNjXqhRog1cV2Tpd+ijDmzR92OTLszuUccd9xBUuNlzL0YBWwt 2fmO5adu/Vn9OLoYFTgTrUW5M26MIC3rItlr+uCoyLtOynCYwEYqa0WsfYVX/z2ByQWu PjaLZiHQlkW+rXcU+TSPdk3GhILLg48Qg0zu60z4izyDXZz5pvfRFNC6gSYtUkxvAqie qlharHnhIKHNFLksawMOEj0iVsCM74hcEcVkphjh/F08Obh4KD0FjBmveghuKl7h4hCO zoBA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532+wr4e4Cei+ErkqI3LfJmA6whfhe8l/nzAROeUey5ngI+hK3ZE 4mHsgJyQAJDD/JbNxMbSf2RyKHKoD78= X-Google-SMTP-Source: ABdhPJyNPeEy055mFaMqZF0htcT4hkXldeD18UdHtbNB5BJy8olH02WUPod7McaHx47sS1YyM1f6hg== X-Received: by 2002:a0c:bc18:: with SMTP id j24mr9409296qvg.187.1599304657635; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 04:17:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.0-6-amd64; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/767058 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/202009050717.36053.rhkramer@gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 24 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:17:36 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <202009050717.36053.rhkramer@gmail.com> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:226710 On Friday, September 04, 2020 07:55:43 PM Aaron Elmquist wrote: > I'm on debian buster using KDE as my GUI. My trackpoint was working quite > well until a month or two ago (maybe more). Now it has some odd behavior > where it will snap to the bottom of the screen every so often when I'm > using it. > > Seems like the input is very sensitive to the bottom direction. No > snapping to any other location Really seems like the input in the down > direction became overly sensitive. I can't really control the rate of a > downward cursor movement consistently. It's just to fast from time to > time. > > Any help would be appreciated. I would provide more details, configs, > etc., but I'm not really sure what's relevant. I suspect you suspect the same thing I do, that it is a hardware problem. I don't have any idea how hard it may be to get or to replace a trackpoint -- you may have to replace the entire keyboard as a unit, which may not be all that hard. If it were mine, I would look for an external tracking device (mouse, trackball, ???) and start using it instead of the trackpoint. For traveling, there are some very small mice available.