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Workaround for broken TrackPoint

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+ Sometimes, seemingly at random after clicking the dedicated left click + or right click buttons, the buttons and trackpoint on my Lenovo + Thinkpad T14s stops working. Instead of clicking, the three mouse + buttons just makes the pointer move a bit and the trackpoint makes the + pointer move in a random direction and seems to issue clicks. +

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+ When this happens, the kernel buffer is spammed with "psmouse + serio1: elantech: discarding packet". Searching the interwebs, + I found that more people seem to be experiencing similar weirdness with + the elantech trackpoint driver. +

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+ Rebooting the computer works, but it's annoying. Removing and re-adding + the misbehaving kernel module resolves the issue too fortunately. I + put the following in ~/bin/fixmouse: +

#!/bin/sh
+doas rmmod psmouse
+doas modprobe psmouse
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+ So now I can run fixmouse whenever the driver stops + working. +

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