Excerpts from david's message of 2011-09-05 11:11:39 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Joel Roth's message of 2011-09-04 08:59:31 +0200: > >> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 05:49:19PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > >> > >>> I have owned a few ThinkPads in my day, and they do run > >>> well with linux, but the ergonomics of the keyboards on > >>> them irritate me so much, I'll never use another one. > >> I'm happy with my T410; I ameliorate the ergonomics > >> by using a wireless USB mouse, and a compact > >> USB keyboard. > >> > >> I disabled the touch pad, otherwise I > >> get spurious mouse clicks. > > > > I use a really cheap Acer Extensa 5220, keyboard is ok for me, it has a > > rather conventional layout compared to some laptops I've seen where > > ESC/Shift/Enter/... where all over the place. The touchpad works ok for > > me, although I started to use a mouse again when at home. Touchpad is ok > > for the occasional pointing, but if you do point-heavy stuff it can go > > so far that your fingertips heat up and you almost start to rub them > > off. > > I think that's where the fingertip-rolling technique comes in. Fingertip-rolling only works for very small distances for me, so it doesn't really help a lot. > > The touchpad can be disabled using Fn+F7 but this happens pretty > > much in hardware as far as I know and can lead to xruns (same goes for > > backlight). > > Toshibas have a function key combo that disables touchpad. I've never > noticed if it has any impact on xruns, cuz I usually use external > keyboard and trackball except on mobile recording trips (like recording > my church band this morning) - then I need the touchpad. > > Can't imagine why backlighting would have any impact on xruns. I'd > figure that would be subsumed in the general impact of laptops' power > management hardware on things like processor or bus speeds. I assume it has to do with hw-interrupts or somesuch. I'm talking about manually changing the backlight level using the key combination, I use little automatic power management features and nothing that changes backlight automatically because to me that's just annoying. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
