[ltp] trackpoint issue thinkpad x30

[Richard Neill]

Matt Graham wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 02:53, after a long battle with technology, 
> Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
>> everything working perfectly with my [X30] laptop except for one weird 
>> issue.  I can not type and have input from the trackpoint, so I 
>> [can't] shift-click, or ctrl-click, etc.  [It's] very annoying.  I 
>> think [it's] a bug in the driver as I can do the alt and scroll with 
>> [the] touchpad.
> 

That's very weird. Does xev show you anything useful? My guess is that 
something like gnome-accessibility or the window-manager is somehow 
grabbing these clicks. Are you using gnome or kde?

Which distro are you using? Does anything relevant show up in 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

As for xorg.conf, you want something simple, just one mouse device (no 
synaptics), using /dev/input/mice and the PS/2 (or ExplorerPS/2) 
driver.  If you can get  Ctrl to work on its own, and Click to work on 
its own, I'd probably not suspect the driver.

Best wishes,

Richard




> Post the sections of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf that deal with the input 
> devices.  You also might want to post the output of synclient -l.  
> Here's what I've got in my xorg.conf for input devices:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard1"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>         Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc101"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse1"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "synaptics"
>         Driver      "synaptics"
>         Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>         Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
> EndSection
> 
>  ...everything works fine.  However, I'm using a T42p, not an X30, and I 
> have a USA keyboard.
>