on 15/03/2002 13:01, Rogério Brito at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 15 2002, Siggi Langauf wrote: >> Hmmm, I guess that every USB mouse wil work fine. Personally, I'm >> using an optical Wheel mouse by Logitech, which is nice to use on >> "strange" surfaces like Sofas or wooden tables. But it has already >> failed on a plasic mouse pad. > > Humm... :-) Well, I'll perhaps see if I can get one of those. > >> The only real advantage over the Trackpad is having three mouse >> buttons and a scroll wheel... > > The scroll wheel is an excellent bonus if I can find an USB > mouse, that is. :-) > >>> It seems that the trackpad of this notebook is way inferior >>> than the trackpad of my Compaq Armada V300 and I have to >>> comfort myself with the idea of getting an external mouse, >>> since the behaviour of "trackpad drag" is unsatisfactory. >> >> Hmmm, what exactly is unsatisfactory? Have you tried "trackpad lock" >> as well? > > Yes, I tried that, and that is what I don't like. In fact, my > problem is that "trackpad drag" brings me some reminiscences > of "lock". > > The situation is this: when I double-tap the pad, the cursor > enters move mode. I then move the windows as well as I like. > No problems here. But when I release the pad (i.e., lift my > finger), the cursor takes some time to change back to pointing > mode. > > I would like to control this delay (in fact, I would like it > to instantly change). > > Is there anybody here that knows if this a limitation of the > ADB bus (which I read is quite slow)? Or is it controllable > via software? >
I have an analysis of this really weird behaviour, and I've seen it in both mac os [from v. 7.6.1 to 9.1] and debian linux. In my case (I have also seen this on both a quadra 800 and this pmac 7500, btw) the when I move a window, or click the scrollbar arrow, the cursor sometimes locks into "move mode", requiring me to click again to unlock it. So my edumacated guess is that it seems to be a bug in the ADB coding (on the ADB chip(s)) or hardware. It certainly isn't software or os related. my 2 cents, eric
