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Flightless Bird
Hi all,
An Acer TravelMate 6593g TrackPoint issue is getting a touch annoying.
I have spent numerous hours, probably days all together, trying to get
it working. It just doesn't move. Not sure if TrackPoint is the Acer
term to use, but at least on ThinkPads these are called exactly that.
This particular TravelMate model has a Synaptics TouchPad and the
TrackPoint. Most of the time, the TouchPad works just fine (when I
haven't messed up with its installation also while trying to recover the
TrackPoint). And it follows the Fn+F7 pattern to turn it off and on.
Despite of my Googling, I'm not finding any references of anybody else
having this same issue. Nor drivers or any setup packages for the
TrackPoint. It's like it didn't exist.
I'm running XP Pro SP3 with pretty much all the recent updates
installed. Tried booting with Win7/Vista install CDs, there on the
installer first screens TouchPad works but TrackPoint doesn't. Would
this mean it's a HW issue or that the installers don't load the
appropriate drivers?
A colleague of mine has exact same laptop and the TrackPoint works for
him. Devices and software installations are about the same. I'm running
VMware Workstation and many other apps that we might blame for this.
Basically I'm not sure if this is a hardware thing or not. Can't recall
for sure if the TrackPoint ever worked after last XP-reinstallation.
Acer recovery partition is gone, so cannot do the factory restore magic.
This particular machine has been back to Acer repairs a couple of times
already, it arrived DOA and most external connector ports died a few
months later (ethernet, dvi etc. ports failed on the laptop body, but
worked through ezDock). Since that last trip it's been pretty much
functional. Another one for the TrackPoint? Please no...
Anybody have the same problem? Any clues? Help greatly appreciated.
tonttu.
An Acer TravelMate 6593g TrackPoint issue is getting a touch annoying.
I have spent numerous hours, probably days all together, trying to get
it working. It just doesn't move. Not sure if TrackPoint is the Acer
term to use, but at least on ThinkPads these are called exactly that.
This particular TravelMate model has a Synaptics TouchPad and the
TrackPoint. Most of the time, the TouchPad works just fine (when I
haven't messed up with its installation also while trying to recover the
TrackPoint). And it follows the Fn+F7 pattern to turn it off and on.
Despite of my Googling, I'm not finding any references of anybody else
having this same issue. Nor drivers or any setup packages for the
TrackPoint. It's like it didn't exist.
I'm running XP Pro SP3 with pretty much all the recent updates
installed. Tried booting with Win7/Vista install CDs, there on the
installer first screens TouchPad works but TrackPoint doesn't. Would
this mean it's a HW issue or that the installers don't load the
appropriate drivers?
A colleague of mine has exact same laptop and the TrackPoint works for
him. Devices and software installations are about the same. I'm running
VMware Workstation and many other apps that we might blame for this.
Basically I'm not sure if this is a hardware thing or not. Can't recall
for sure if the TrackPoint ever worked after last XP-reinstallation.
Acer recovery partition is gone, so cannot do the factory restore magic.
This particular machine has been back to Acer repairs a couple of times
already, it arrived DOA and most external connector ports died a few
months later (ethernet, dvi etc. ports failed on the laptop body, but
worked through ezDock). Since that last trip it's been pretty much
functional. Another one for the TrackPoint? Please no...
Anybody have the same problem? Any clues? Help greatly appreciated.
tonttu.