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augustl

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Registered: 2010-02-22

Posts: 33

TrackPoint on a T420s not showing up anywhere and not working

Hi folks,

seems like Arch doesn't recognize that my thinkpad has a TrackPoint.

coldcache ~ % find /dev/input/event* -exec udevadm info --attribute-walk --name={} \; | grep -e product -e name | sort -u                 
    ATTRS{name}=="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    ATTRS{name}=="HDA Digital PCBeep"
    ATTRS{name}=="HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP"
    ATTRS{name}=="Integrated Camera"
    ATTRS{name}=="Lid Switch"
    ATTRS{name}=="PC Speaker"
    ATTRS{name}=="Power Button"
    ATTRS{name}=="Sleep Button"
    ATTRS{name}=="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
    ATTRS{name}=="ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
    ATTRS{name}=="Video Bus"
    ATTRS{product}=="EHCI Host Controller"
    ATTRS{product}=="Integrated Camera"

It should include `ATTRS{name}=="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"` but doesn't. The TrackPoint is enabled in bios settings. But since the system doesn't know the TrackPoint exists, it obviously doesn't work. Also tried `gpointing-device-settings`, but the TrackPoint isn't listed there either.

I recently had Ubuntu 11.10 intsalled on this machine, and it also didn't recognize the TrackPoint.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by augustl (2011-11-10 22:58:10)