Comment 8 for bug 1506817

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Jont Allen (jontalle) wrote : Re: [Bug 1506817] Re: left TPP/2 IBM TrackPoint "sticks on" randomly (X250 15.04)

Thank you Christopher
Will do the BIOS update ASAP, but it may take a few days. My schedule is
tight at the moment.
I'll get back to you on the outcome.
Thank you,
Jont Allen

On 10/20/2015 09:53 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Jont Allen, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
>
> As per http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-
> netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x250 an update to your
> computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (1.17). If you update to
> this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it
> change anything?
>
> If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
> information above is provided, then please mark this report Status
> Confirmed. Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.17
>
> ** No longer affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>