Comments | ringrose: I give up. Stupid keyboard.

ringrose

I give up. Stupid keyboard.

May 22, 2011 01:03

I use an IBM keyboard on my home machine. Recently, it effectively died from overuse. Keys falling off, mouse buttons not working, etc ( Read more... )

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firstfrost May 22 2011, 13:38:53 UTC

Did you install drivers for the new keyboard? The page you linked to has a link to software/device drivers for it (with warnings about function keys). The lack of properly identifying it does make it seem like it doesn't have the right drivers and is using a generic driver.

ringrose May 22 2011, 17:06:23 UTC

See more extensive comment to ghudson.

intuition_ist May 22 2011, 14:18:44 UTC

are you using this with a WinXP system? Windows 7 may not be able to recognize the device properly.

ringrose May 22 2011, 17:06:31 UTC

Win XP.

ghudson May 22 2011, 15:27:14 UTC

Yeah, the kind of customization you want to do is not going to be available through the BIOS or Windows XP, most likely, so you'd need driver software. Towards the bottom of the posted link, there is a "Software and Device Drivers" link. The first file there (the 7MB one) looks the most promising.

ringrose May 22 2011, 17:15:40 UTC

Having jumped through that hoop:
Yes, I installed the drivers from that link. I also installed the "Thinkpad UltraNav Wizard", which when run tells me "Touch pad is disabled from BIOS. Please enable it from BIOS or the ThinkPad configuration utility."

Out of desperation, I downloaded and ran the ThinkPad configuration utility, and it simply said it can't run on this system.

Down in the system tray, there's an icon which looks like the trackpoint. Mousing over it, I get "TouchPad=Disabled, TrackPoint=Pointer". Clicking on that gives a menu which has trackpoint and touchpad settings greyed out, but advanced settings available. However, selecting advanced settings is just the same as doing to the control panel and picking the mouse properties and the wizard has the previously-stated problem of telling you to activate it.

If only I could figure out _why_ it can't identify the devices....

ringrose May 22 2011, 17:55:23 UTC

I'm beginning to think this is a hardware issue on the keyboard. I plugged it into my IBM laptop, and it still came up as an HID-compliant mouse.

I give up. I'm going to send the keyboard back and get the version with no touchpad. It's cheaper anyway.

ringrose May 26 2011, 01:15:36 UTC

The version with no touchpad came with an install disk. Installed perfectly, works, and I can adjust the sensitivity.
Yay.