Trackpoint Support

Arem · 03-03-2005, 08:33 PM

I have an IBM thinkpad A22M and was wondering if anyone knew how to get trackpoint scrolling to work. I found some driver source code but wasn't shore quite what to do with it.... suggestions?Student

short101 · 03-03-2005, 11:07 PM

Make sure you have these lines in your xf86config file under input device mouse section
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Restart x or reboot and it should work for ya.

You might want to go for a newer version of redhat too, ie fedora.

Arem · 03-04-2005, 08:12 AM

I tried that and it caused my mouse to spazz randomly all over the screen. It actually managed to open a properties window and changed some stuff while moving randomly. Anyway, I exited X and changed the config back from text mode. It looks like I'm gonna have to patch and rebuild the kernel to get support for it.