Re: Trackpoint in the Thinkpad notebook

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:52 PM, ficovh wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:35:16PM -0600, ficovh wrote:
>>> Hi folks.
>>> 
>>> from the beginning I'm using Thinkpad notebook's, but always having
>>> problems with Trackpoint, sometimes it work fine, sometimes it don't .
>>> Anyone has success using correctly the IBM trackpoint ? My currents
>>> noteboks are T61 and T43p. (..)
>> 
>> Mine just works fine (T61, 5.0_STABLE/i386), although I usually
>> run the following to disable it when using my external USB mouse:
>> 
>> # wsmuxctl -f /dev/wsmux0 -r wsmouse0
>> 
>> Note that this disables both the pad and the stick.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for reply,
> 
> but the mine ocasionally work fine, sometimes don't work. I think in a
> additional config in the xorg.conf maybe .!
> 
I've occasionally seen something like that; see some of the discussion in 
kern/37278

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb