[haiku-development] Re: Mouse <-> touchpad settings woes

  • From: Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:18:47 -0800

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > I see. Without going into detail (who really cares about Windows?) the
> > above still wouldn't help if you switch between the touchpad and a
> > number of connected deviced like mouse, graphics tablet and... let's
> > say you have another knobbly-pointy-thingy in your keyboard like HP
> > (used to?) have?
>
> My ThinkPad Z60m has that knobbly thing too, called a TrackPoint,
> though I don't really use it myself (I use the touch pad.) I think
> most ThinkPads include it as a distinguishing feature (and many of the
> ThinkPad faithful may prefer it over the touch pad.) I am not sure how
> it is exposed to the operating system, maybe just as a PS/2 or USB
> mouse.
>
> It's exposed as a ps/2 mouse, and it is the one true mousing device. ;)
First thing
I do when I get a new thinkpad is disable the badtouchpad.

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