Impossible to say. You are dealing with bad hardware.
If this happens after closing the lid, likely you have an
ACPI problem. ACPI is the system of sleeping/resuming
hardware on your laptop for suspending. If I'm getting
what you wrote, your pointing devices would be gone.
If something causes a pointing device to change, it's
bad hardware. I can't think of anything else.
--STeve Andre'
On 12/26/11 03:25, Jeffrey Race wrote:
Were I to disable the trackpad as suggested,
and then the T43 encountered whatever stimulus
causes the spontaneous switch from trackpoint
to trackpad, would the trackpoint then continue
to work as before (i.e. I'd prevent the
misoperation) or would the machine become
disabled because the trackpad would now be
disabled?
Jeffyey Race
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:29:03 -0500 (EST), Julian Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:04:15 +0700 Jeffrey Race wrote:
Sometimes control of the cursor moves from
the trackpoint to the trackpad; at this time
the trackpoint becomes nonresponsive as are
the trackpoint MB1 and MB2. It just happened
after I closed the computer cover and reopened
it a half hour later.
Good reason to disable the trackpad in the BIOS!
Happy Turkey!
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In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State!
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A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no
mercy. --Joseph Campbell
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