[ltp] TrackPoint Driver in 2.6.14

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:03:04 +0100


James Knott wrote:
> Vo^ Danh wrote:
>> 2005/10/30, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
>>> What does it do, that's not already available?  I run SUSE 10 on an R31
>>> and the TrackPoint works fine, as always.
>> Maybe you didn't care about how hard you can move the mouse with your
>> trackpoint. Just try Evanchik's product and explore it.
> 
> I didn't mention anything about caring.  I simply didn't know what it
> was supposed to do.  However, what would interest me, is proper
> functioning of all the F keys, such as for switching monitors etc.

ibm-acpi will be your friend. To my experience on SUSE 10 it is broken. 
Compiling vanilla 2.6.14 makes it work.

The trackpoint driver enables finetuning of the trackpoint and some 
advanced features.

André.