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icetonic

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 104

ThinkPad L530 TrackPoint not detected?

I already searched a lot but I didn't find much information about this problem... except this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1116860 but it didn't help...

My problem is that the TrackPoint is not detected at all... There is no TrackPoint device in the xinput list, I can't see anything looking like it in dmesg...

Is it possible that I have got some new, unsupported TrackPoint? What can I do to try to enable it?

Thanks in advance!

Lice

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Registered: 2012-12-03

Posts: 2

Re: ThinkPad L530 TrackPoint not detected?

Up!

loading psmouse module with proto=bare option more or less solves this problem. However, I can't find out how to disable touchpad at all, because after loading psmouse with proto=bare option only one input device called "PS/2 Generic Mouse" is visible, so disabling it, disables Trackpoint also, which is the only input device I use.

Last edited by Lice (2012-12-03 13:38:58)

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: ThinkPad L530 TrackPoint not detected?

What does xinput list show?  Do you have more than one device listed?

It is true that some kernels do not support the TrackPoint.  I had that happen several years ago trying to use a laptop kernel.

AFAIK, ThinkPads have always used Synaptic drivers.  It is possible this has changed with the latest ThinkPads, but I have not heard anything to that effect.

What kernel drivers do you show listed in /usr/lib/modules/3.6.x..ARCH/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/ ?
I have: appletouch, bcm5974, psmouse, synaptics_i2c, synaptics_usb, and vsxxxaa.

Lice

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Registered: 2012-12-03

Posts: 2

Re: ThinkPad L530 TrackPoint not detected?

xinput list:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                      	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)

In .../kernel/drivers/input/mouse there are these modules:
appletouch.ko.gz  psmouse.ko.gz        synaptics_usb.ko.gz
bcm5974.ko.gz     synaptics_i2c.ko.gz  vsxxxaa.ko.gz

It's a known bug.