T440p intermittent lagging trackpoint cursor

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T440p intermittent lagging trackpoint cursor

#1 Post by pianoprodigy » Fri Nov 13, 2015 1:27 pm

This issue is driving me crazy. I have tried every driver possible. I even bought a new keyboard for a new trackpoint thinking it could be hardware related.

Right now, I am typing on my T440p. At the moment, the cursor is behaving normally. Several times a day, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for much longer, the cursor begins to lag and stutter. I cannot explain when it happens as it appears to be completely random. I have tried killing processes. I have monitored for odd memory or processor or disk usage. Nothing seems to stand out.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could possibly be causing it? I do have a T450 style clickpad with buttons installed and thus only certain drivers work with it, but I started having this problem only recently and have had the trackpad swapped for a year now. I even did a clean install back to Windows 8.1.

Thanks for any ideas.
T42 2373-3XU - $1840 - She served me well for almost 5 years
T400 on order as of 11/18/09 - $1400 (including Intel SSD) - P8700, 4GB RAM, 80GB X25G2 SSD (I upgraded), 3470 256MB
T420s - loaded, still in use as secondary machine
T440p - loaded, primary

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Re: T440p intermittent lagging trackpoint cursor

#2 Post by Eric Giles » Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:18 pm

Does the new clickpad use Synaptics or Elan drivers?
pianoprodigy wrote:This issue is driving me crazy. I have tried every driver possible. I even bought a new keyboard for a new trackpoint thinking it could be hardware related.

Right now, I am typing on my T440p. At the moment, the cursor is behaving normally. Several times a day, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for much longer, the cursor begins to lag and stutter. I cannot explain when it happens as it appears to be completely random. I have tried killing processes. I have monitored for odd memory or processor or disk usage. Nothing seems to stand out.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could possibly be causing it? I do have a T450 style clickpad with buttons installed and thus only certain drivers work with it, but I started having this problem only recently and have had the trackpad swapped for a year now. I even did a clean install back to Windows 8.1.

Thanks for any ideas.
I lost count...

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Re: T440p intermittent lagging trackpoint cursor

#3 Post by pianoprodigy » Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:58 pm

Eric Giles wrote:Does the new clickpad use Synaptics or Elan drivers?
pianoprodigy wrote:This issue is driving me crazy. I have tried every driver possible. I even bought a new keyboard for a new trackpoint thinking it could be hardware related.

Right now, I am typing on my T440p. At the moment, the cursor is behaving normally. Several times a day, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for much longer, the cursor begins to lag and stutter. I cannot explain when it happens as it appears to be completely random. I have tried killing processes. I have monitored for odd memory or processor or disk usage. Nothing seems to stand out.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could possibly be causing it? I do have a T450 style clickpad with buttons installed and thus only certain drivers work with it, but I started having this problem only recently and have had the trackpad swapped for a year now. I even did a clean install back to Windows 8.1.

Thanks for any ideas.
This is the first time I have heard of an Elan driver actually. I have read there is an alps driver.

Here is a write up about the mod: http://camerongray.me/2015/02/fitting-p ... pad-t440s/

The driver that works for me is the n10gx25w
T42 2373-3XU - $1840 - She served me well for almost 5 years
T400 on order as of 11/18/09 - $1400 (including Intel SSD) - P8700, 4GB RAM, 80GB X25G2 SSD (I upgraded), 3470 256MB
T420s - loaded, still in use as secondary machine
T440p - loaded, primary

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