Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470

From	Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470
Date	2020-09-06 17:00 +0200
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Also - check carefully what firmware it might require. You have, for
example, installed firmware-linux-nonfree, firmware-misc-nonfree to enable
non-free firmware possibly?

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:12 PM riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 9/5/20, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 05, 2020 12:34:37 PM Aaron Elmquist wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Oh, maybe one idea, did it come with Windows and is it still there (I
> mean, can you boot into Windows?) -- if so, do that, and try a similar app
> in Windows.
> >
> > In Linux, does the problem happen in only one application, or in other
> > applications as well?
>
> Basic thought: grab any-distro LiveUSB and boot from there and check
> if the issue persist.
>
> If any other OS makes the hardware works fine then at least that cause
> could be ruled out.
>
> Hope this help, best regards.
>
>

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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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