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Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470

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Well, I don't think it's a hardware issue.  The computer is less than a
year old and it's been used sporadically over the last year.  Any thoughts
on how to rule hardware out as an issue?

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 6:18 AM <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-05 02:10 +0200
  Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-05 13:20 +0200
    Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-05 18:40 +0200
      Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-05 19:50 +0200
        Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-09-06 00:20 +0200
          Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-09-06 17:00 +0200
            Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-06 17:40 +0200

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