[ltp] X1 (4th Generation) Ubuntu 16.06 trackpoint slow

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:16:31PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> I have used so far, X40, X60 and X200s, the last two with Ubuntu 14.04,
> and although the setting was 
> sensitive   128
> speed       97
> 
> And found it very fast and responsive,
> 
> However in my X1 4th Generation I have (max values recognized)
> sensitive   255
> speed       255
> 
> And it is considerable slower than the other models. 
> 
> Setting it to lower values make it unbearable slow.
> 
> Any idea what is going on? Could it be the BIOS?

More likely the input driver.

If you'd used a modern distro (and not one from 2016), I'd recommend
checking out https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/trackpoint-configuration.html.

I don't remember how things worked in 2016.  I see Ubuntu 16.04 had
libinput 1.2.3.  I see that xserver-xorg-input-libinput was in universe,
so probably it wasn't the default driver for Xorg sessions.  Somehow I
don't think you're using a Wayland session.

Was trackpoint handled by the synaptics driver, or by the evdev driver?
*googles furiously*  Ah, evdev.  I don't remember anything about it, and
judging by http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint
you've already gone as far as that road can take you.

Have you tried booting a newer distro, say Ubuntu 18.04 or 19.10 from a
USB drive, just to see if the trackpoint speed is fixed upstream?

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile.
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