ThinkPad Trackpoint

[balanga]

Does anyone have X working with a ThinkPad TrackPoint?

I have an IBM ThinkPad T41p on which I have installed FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE along with xorg but I can't get any response from the mouse cursor. Any ideas?

 

[SirDice]

Doesn't a Thinkpad have a Synaptics touchpad? x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics

 

[beatgammit]

Doesn't a Thinkpad have a Synaptics touchpad? x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics

I imagine the OP is talking about the pointing stick on the keyboard, not the trackpad. I played with FreeBSD briefly on my ThinkPad t430 and got far enough to get my TrackPoint and touchpad working, but I don't remember what specific settings I set in my xorg.conf.

 

[balanga]

I imagine OP is talking about the pointing stick on the keyboard, not the trackpad. I played with FreeBSD briefly on my ThinkPad t430 and got far enough to get my trackpoint and touchpad working, but I don't remember what specific settings I set in my xorg.conf.

For some reason, unknown to me, it automagically started working. I never touched xorg.conf, in fact I don't think there is one. There is a /root/xorg.conf.new but I have not edited it.

 

[jrm@]

I've never had to do anything special to get the pointing sitck working on an IBM/Lenovo other than install x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse. The first thought that popped into my mind was that you built/installed x11/xorg with sysutils/hal, but didn't start hal. In that case, IIRC your keyboard wouldn't work in xorg either.

 

[lme@]

And if you want to use the middle mouse button and TrackPoint to scroll, use this in /etc/rc.conf:

moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-VH"

You might need to add "-L 10 -U 10" to the flags if scrolling acts weird.

 

[jrm@]

Oh, that's right. I also put in:

moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-A 2.0,2.0 -a 1.2 -V"

after being inspired by this nice post to check out moused().