Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 01:50:31PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 12:15 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > right, sorry if that wasn't clear but changing the acceleration profile > > won't change the drift you're seeing. Completely separate bug. What it does > > change is the speed

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Kai Hendry
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 12:15 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > right, sorry if that wasn't clear but changing the acceleration profile > won't change the drift you're seeing. Completely separate bug. What it does > change is the speed which you labeled as "a bit too fast" in the first > email. Oh, so

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:04:12PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 11:49 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > see the libinput documentation, it's a normalised value from -1.0 (slowest) > > to > > 1.0 (fastest) with 0 being the usually-default midpoint. > > [hendry@t480s ~]$

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Kai Hendry
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 11:49 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > see the libinput documentation, it's a normalised value from -1.0 (slowest) to > 1.0 (fastest) with 0 being the usually-default midpoint. [hendry@t480s ~]$ xinput --set-prop 11 'libinput Accel Speed' -1 Has no impact to my drift

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:36:55AM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > Well I never installed gnome/kde to begin with. > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 11:24 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > don't get me wrong but - if you're capable of removing gnome/kde for > > whatever reasons, you're capable of figuring out

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Kai Hendry
Well I never installed gnome/kde to begin with. On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, at 11:24 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > don't get me wrong but - if you're capable of removing gnome/kde for > whatever reasons, you're capable of figuring out xinput. there are plenty of > guides on google, some of which are even

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:46:59AM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > Thank you Peter for the pointers! > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, at 12:25 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > yeah, that's a built-in trackpoint feature that we don't have control over. > > drat > > > pieces with google. drift_time is probably

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-21 Thread Kai Hendry
Thank you Peter for the pointers! On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, at 12:25 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > yeah, that's a built-in trackpoint feature that we don't have control over. drat > pieces with google. drift_time is probably the key here, maybe resetafter or > resync_time. At some point I had a pdf

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-20 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:14:28AM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, at 12:05 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > what exactly is drift in this context? it moves on its own to the edge of > > the screen? > > It generally just moves diagonally south west for about a cm. Sometimes > all the

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-20 Thread Kai Hendry
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, at 12:05 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > what exactly is drift in this context? it moves on its own to the edge of > the screen? It generally just moves diagonally south west for about a cm. Sometimes all the way to the bottom left. Initially I googled around and people said it

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-20 Thread Emil Velikov
On 20 March 2018 at 04:05, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 04:28:20PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm an Archlinux user who has a new T480s Thinkpad and unfortunately >> the Trackpoint can (not always or reproducibly) "drift". I hope that

Re: T480s Trackpoint drifts

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 04:28:20PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm an Archlinux user who has a new T480s Thinkpad and unfortunately > the Trackpoint can (not always or reproducibly) "drift". I hope that > makes sense! what exactly is drift in this context? it moves on its own to the