[ltp] How?: Trackpoint USB keyboard in linux

[Boyan]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Tod Harter wrote:

> > know what Protocol to use for the USB keyboard and what Option "XkbModel"
> > and Option "Device"?
>
> Nah, USB keyboard driver simply replaces the regular keyboard driver, so a USB
> keyboard should work everywhere, in or out of X,

Well that was what I was thinking when I bought it in the first place,
but...

> and in fact X should not
> even be able to tell its a USB keyboard. Does the keyboard work at the text
> console? If not then it won't work in X either...

Restarted again, but no change. The mouse works but no keyboard, neither
in X, in console, nor in terminal. Interesting is that with the
Thinkpad600x and same linux SuSE 8.0 I get exactly the opposite behaviour:
keyboard works but the in-built mouse is dead. In both cases the IBM USB
Trackpoint Spacesaver Keyboard was not worth the money (and it was quite
an amount for a keyboard). Now I am looking for a friend (a windowsman) to
give it as a present.

Regards,
Boyan


> >
> > On 30 Oct 2002, Rob Mayoff wrote:
> > > +---------- On Oct 30, Boyan said:
> > > > Neither mouse, nor keyboard are working. I tried to configure anew the
> > > > input devices with Sax but to no avail, whatever options I tried. I
> > > > hope some of you may have used this thinkpad like keyboard and give me
> > > > a hint how to run it.
> > >
> > > You need to load these modules:
> > >
> > >     usbcore
> > >     usb-uhci
> > >     input
> > >     hid
> > >     keybdev
> > >     mousedev
> > >
> > > The keyboard part will automatically work if you have the right modules
> > > loaded. To make the mouse (trackpoint) work in X, you have to tell X to
> > > use it. Try this:
> > >
> > > <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_sing
> > >le/XFree86-Second-Mouse.html>
> > >
> > > If you keep mousedev (and the modules it depends on) loaded all the
> > > time, then /dev/input/mice will exist even when you don't have any USB
> > > devices plugged in.  This means that X will be able to use the same
> > > configuration regardless of whether you have a USB mouse attached.
>
>