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SimonCC · #1 Post by **SimonCC** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:09 am

does anyone elses touchpad sometimes go a bit crazy?? Sometimes the cursor gets jolty, doesnt move when it should and darts around etc - i do have the latest drivers installed...

Steve007 · #2 Post by **Steve007** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:47 am

Nope.

ian · #3 Post by **ian** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:09 am

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to let us know what you are smoking at the moment...(I'd like some too)

To be honest I did once see a similar thing - but that was after my 2nd bottle of Talisker...

SimonCC · #4 Post by **SimonCC** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:04 pm

wow, thanks for your help - tp help and stand-up comedy all in one!

Lotek · #5 Post by **Lotek** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:10 pm

Yep. The touchpad on my brand-spankin' new T42 (2378 DXU) is possessed. Sometimes it will open/select something if my finger is near the touchpad or hovering over it, but not actually touching it, or if I am moving the cursor across a selectable item. Other times there is no response at all even when touching the touchpad.

Because of those issues, in addition to others, I want to return the T42 to IBM. This morning I spent 45+ minutes on hold trying to get through to IBM's Returns Dept to get a RMA#. No human ever came on the line. Funny how they are very fast to answer the phone when calling the sales order dept. So much for IBM's reported stellar customer service.

Steve007 · #6 Post by **Steve007** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:19 pm

Lotek wrote:Yep. The touchpad on my brand-spankin' new T42 (2378 DXU) is possessed.

(OT) Do you use the same drug dealer as 'SimonCC'?

ian · #7 Post by **ian** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:48 pm

SimonCC wrote:wow, thanks for your help - tp help and stand-up comedy all in one!

Yeah - us brits gotta stick together eh...amidst just over 600 posts to this forum, there was a rumour I was able to help a chap once - only a rumour though - keep it to yourself.

SimonCC · #8 Post by **SimonCC** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:53 pm

will do hehe...

Elhabash · #9 Post by **Elhabash** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:21 pm

The cursor jumps when two fingers touch the pad. This happens sometimes even when I would think that my finger was somewhere else, but after a visual check it actually was there, on the pad, next to its brother. Kind of creepy...

BTW, mine is homegrown

Seriously, I was almost flipping when the cursor jumped around, marking text when I was typing. This really sucked, since the marked text gets replaced.

This was until I found out that disabling the Press-to-select feature of the trackpoint might be a good idea...

SimonCC · #10 Post by **SimonCC** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:43 pm

hmm, maybe thats it elhabash, ill be sure to look next time it happens! Cheers.

edelrc · #11 Post by **edelrc** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:30 pm

Elhabash is right. Sometimes even it happens to me no with two fingers but one... then I noticed that my thumb was touching the pad in two areas at the same time... just correcting the habit solved the issue.

(By the way, besides this sensitivity this is the best touchpad I have seen in a laptop. And I did an RMA and did not have any problem at all. It took only some 5min or so.)
Ah, and I am that person who Ian was able to help once...

(seriously, thanks Ian!)

neosys911 · #12 Post by **neosys911** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:17 pm

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to let us know what you are smoking at the moment...(I'd like some too)

To be honest I did once see a similar thing - but that was after my 2nd bottle of Talisker...
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