[ltp] Datapoint: IBM ultranav USB external keyboard works "out of the box"

[Paul Kaplan]

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trackpoint stops working while the trackpad continues to work.
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On Monday 05 January 2004 07:29 pm, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> > Just in case anyone is interested, I decided that I like the IBM
> > keyboard with integrated trackpoint so much that I bought one for my
> > desktop. It's the ultranav USB keyboard with both trackpoint and
> > touchpad:
> > http://www5.pc.ibm.com/uk/products.nsf/$wwwpartnumlookup/_31P8953
> >
> > It "just works" - no configuration needed (Mandrake 9.2 or Knoppix).
> > I'm not sure what I want to do with the synaptics-touchpad part of it
> > (I've always hated those things), but I discovered* that it is easy to
> > just unplug it internally :-)
> >
> > *I was willing to risk destroying an external keyboard (=A360) with a
>
> Well in case the synaptics on the external keybord works in the same
> way as the synaptics inside my notebook (t40p) you could have hacked
> the mousedriver to disable the touchpad and just enable the
> trackpoint. But I bet the usb variant of the synaptics is differnt %)
>
> Arne