Getting Thinkpad scroll button to work in Slackware 13
Hi all,
What's the best way to get my Thinkpad's scroll button working with Slackware 13 (32-bit)? With previous versions, I simply edited the xorg.conf file. But the text below from the changes and hints file indicates a couple of other options: Quote:
So, do I make an xorg.conf file that only has the mouse input settings in it? Or, should I edit the relevant HAL policy? If that's the better way, how should I go about doing that? Regards, |
Ack! Google-fu may have helped: Here are instructions from Thinkwiki to edit HAL to configure the scroll button. I'll give this a try this evening and report back on my success or failure.
Regards, |
For my T400's TrackPoint those settings work. I think this way of scrolling is a big improvement over the standard functionality, I prefer it over anything else.
Another nice feature ( and that works out of the box in Slackware) is that you can slide a finger across the right side of the TrackPad to scroll your window. Eric |
In the case of my ThinkPad T60 TouchPad scrolling doesn't work out of the box. To enable it I have to use that set of rules:
x11-synaptics.fdi Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> disable-touchpad.fdi Code:
<match key="info.product" string="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"> mouse-wheel.fdi Code:
<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"> |
All,
The instructions from Thinkwiki worked perfectly. :) Regards, |
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