[Ti] Buggy trackpad

[Bob Bergey]

On 12/5/02 1:25 AM, "Christopher Owens" <cwosigns at mac.com> wrote:

> I know my buggy trackpad happened after I left my PowerBook in my car
> for a while in cold weather.  I just reset the Power Manager each time
> and it worked fine after that.

Interesting -- I just began having the "buggy trackpad" problem two days
ago, and on thinking about it after seeing your post, realized my TiBook had
been in the cold most of the day just before the problem had occurred. I
wouldn't have made the connection until reading your post; I had also just
installed the latest security update from Apple (for OS X 10.2.2), and
thought perhaps that caused the problem in some way.

One caveat to anyone else having this problem -- while resetting the Power
Manager solved my buggy trackpad problem, too, it seemed to cause another: I
couldn't keep the TiBook/400 running after putting it to sleep, and even
gentle handling would sometimes cause the TiBook to suddenly shut down most
ungracefully, losing anything not saved and taking more than 10 minutes to
start up again (lots of disk activity). It turns out that when I reset the
Power Manager (by shutting down, then pressing the reset button, waiting
five seconds, and restarting), the reset button got stuck in the down
position. Once I discovered that and fiddled with the reset button again so
that it popped back up, all was well again. Trackpad fixed, no unexpected
shutdowns. Fortunately I still have a little bit of hair left to pull out at
the next problem.

Bob
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