Has anyone else with this keyboard had problems with trackpoint drift? Mine worked great for a couple of months but then the drift problem got really bad. I realize this is a common issue with trackpoints and I've seen it happen on Thinkpads but only on rare occasion. On my Yoda, the mouse goes haywire at least once every five minutes.
I've seen various explanations of this issue -- the one that I believe is that the firmware gets confused about where the center is, and you have to let go of it so that it can re-center correctly. However I don't fully understand how this explains my problem, which comes in spates, three or four times in a given minute, then it works fine for several minutes.
Anyway, I wonder if just replacing the trackpoint module might be my best best.
By the way I am using the keyboard with Linux Mint, and found this setting to reduce the sensitivity -- it was close to ideal with this setting until the drift problem got so bad.
$ xinput --set-prop "SONiX USB Device" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 3.5
strokeproneI found out it's a mechanical problem on mine - the rubber head of the trackpoint get's hinged on the "H" key and pushed that way. Annoying, but can be allevated.
I've seen various explanations of this issue -- the one that I believe is that the firmware gets confused about where the center is, and you have to let go of it so that it can re-center correctly. However I don't fully understand how this explains my problem, which comes in spates, three or four times in a given minute, then it works fine for several minutes.
Anyway, I wonder if just replacing the trackpoint module might be my best best.
By the way I am using the keyboard with Linux Mint, and found this setting to reduce the sensitivity -- it was close to ideal with this setting until the drift problem got so bad.
$ xinput --set-prop "SONiX USB Device" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 3.5