[SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

Kirodema · 2010-01-08 19:21:45

Hi

I installed Arch on my Thinkpad R500 and had no problems till now. But on Windows I can scroll with the TrackPoint when the middle mousebutton is pressed and on Arch not. I searched around a bit but didn't find anything that helped me .
I tried it with this How-To but it didnt work somehow.

lshal | grep input.product:

[db@kiro-lenovo ~]$ lshal | grep input.product
  input.product = 'ThinkPad HDAPS joystick emulation'  (string)
  input.product = 'ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data'  (string)
  input.product = 'ThinkPad Extra Buttons'  (string)
  input.product = 'Lid Switch'  (string)
  input.product = 'Macintosh mouse button emulation'  (string)
  input.product = 'Sleep Button'  (string)
  input.product = 'Video Bus'  (string)
  input.product = 'Power Button'  (string)
  input.product = 'PC Speaker'  (string)
  input.product = 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad'  (string)
  input.product = 'DualPoint Stick'  (string)
  input.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)
  input.product = 'HDA Intel Headphone'  (string)
  input.product = 'HDA Intel Headphone'  (string)
  input.product = 'Integrated Camera'  (string)

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-trackpoint.fdi

match key="info.product" string="AlpPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad">
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>

I tried "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" and "DualPoint Stick" but both seemed not to work. I hope you can help me

~kiro

Last edited by Kirodema (2010-01-09 21:25:28)

vi3dr0 · 2010-01-08 20:02:21

AFAIK 2.6.32 kernel messed something up with trackpoint settings. I can't set speed and sensitivity in my t61p

Kirodema · 2010-01-09 21:25:08

Okay, I tried it again with "DualPoint Stick" and rebooted ... now it works

habbe · 2010-01-10 18:09:11

Maybe you could verify this behaviour with the scrolling with trackpoint with firefox: cpu interrupts are tripled and thus the energy consumption gets 2-3 watts bigger. I have X61s and because of this I cannot use this scrolling method.

EDIT: It seems I didn't read this thread properly and so my post is off-topic, however the problem I describe above might be big enough to start a new thread, we'll see

Last edited by habbe (2010-01-12 19:40:48)

Kirodema · 2010-01-11 09:53:05

How or what should I verify? It is working, so I dont know what I should verify.
Please be a little bit more detailed

iosonofabio · 2010-01-12 08:48:30

habbe wrote:

Maybe you could verify this behaviour with the scrolling with trackpoint with firefox: cpu interrupts are tripled and thus the energy consumption gets 2-3 watts bigger. I have X61s and because of this I cannot use this scrolling method.

Hi!

I have an X200s and the method above did not work. As I understood it, in the last kernel hal is not the preferred way for configuring input devices anymore. Now, xinput or udev are used. See the thinkwiki page:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … TrackPoint

Both the first part about xinput and the later part about standard Xorg configuration (using evdev) work for me. I obviously had to get the correct name of my mouse through:

xinput list

before applying any changes.

MadArcher · 2015-10-11 22:23:14

iosonofabio wrote:

Hi!
I have an X200s and the method above did not work. As I understood it, in the last kernel hal is not the preferred way for configuring input devices anymore. Now, xinput or udev are used. See the thinkwiki page:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … TrackPoint
Both the first part about xinput and the later part about standard Xorg configuration (using evdev) work for me. I obviously had to get the correct name of my mouse through:
xinput list
before applying any changes.

I just installed an Arch distro on my trusty old ThinkPad Edge 13 and as you must have guessed I couldn't use the TrackPoint scrolling. Thanks to the link you posted, the xorg.conf.d setting worked directly. My thanks !

Last edited by MadArcher (2015-10-11 22:24:12)

WorMzy · 2015-10-12 20:39:38

MadArcher, please don't necrobump, especially when the thread is marked as solved.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.

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#1 2010-01-08 19:21:45

[SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#2 2010-01-08 20:02:21

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#3 2010-01-09 21:25:08

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#4 2010-01-10 18:09:11

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#5 2010-01-11 09:53:05

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#6 2010-01-12 08:48:30

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#7 2015-10-11 22:23:14

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

#8 2015-10-12 20:39:38

Re: [SOLVED] TrackPoint Scrolling on Thinkpad R500

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