Mouse drift on Dell Latitude c840 running Feisty 7.04

[Florin Andrei]

Adam M wrote:
> 
> This website claims to have the solution:
> http://gimbo.org.uk/blog/2005/11/12/fixing-mouse-drift-on-a-dell-latitude-c600-with-a-sledgehammer/

Interesting.
Indeed, it always felt like it was a trackpoint issue. A gentle nudge to 
the trackpoint used to make the problem go away for a while. Not using 
the trackpoint, but the touchpad instead, reduced the frequency of the 
problem very much.
I always thought it was the trackpoint getting stuck slightly tilted to 
the upper-left direction, instead of getting back 100% to vertical. But 
of course I had no proof.

Eventually I started to use the touchpad almost exclusively and then the 
problem almost disappeared.

I don't have that laptop anymore so I can't do any tests.

Weird.

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Florin Andrei

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