[ltp] trackpoint issue thinkpad x30

[Matthew O'Gorman]

thank you for continuing to press it.  I figured it out, i had
mouseemu running... retarded i know, i pulled all of the installed
packages from another box of mine, that does use it as i have one
button mouse up there. needless to say thanks to all of you for all
your help seriously

mog

On 2/26/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
> > nope, nothing that i can see.  when you use xev, does the input come
> > from different serial points?
>
> No - in my case, whether its a mouse-move, mouse-click, or keypress,
> it's always serial 31.
>
> I think knoppix is probably the best thing to try next.
>
> Another thought - are you running anything such as xmodmap or xbindkeys?
>
> Also, when you tried out twm, did you re-start the x-server after
> quitting your gnome-session?  This *shouldn't* matter, but it could
> possibly be something persisting from gnome. Anything in your startup
> scripts, eg .bashrc, (or perhaps /etc/X11/Xsession.d/) ?
>
> I'm really guessing here - it seems weird. But I still don't think you
> have a hardware bug, nor a driver bug.
>
>
> Richard
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> >
> > mog
> >
> > On 2/26/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
> >> > well other than that ctrl click doesnt open a new tab,
> >>
> >> I never knew that - I always use the middle button instead!
> >>
> >> or shift click
> >> > doesnt select things from point a to point b,
> >>
> >> didn't know that either Thanks :-)
> >>
> >> Both work for me now, when I try them. (Using KDE, Firefox)
> >>
> >> the mouse is unmovable
> >> > till i release the ctrl or shift key, however after i release the
> >> > mouse will jump in the direction i was moving it.
> >>
> >> Can you try it with a window which only occupies about 1/2 of the
> >> screen? Does the window itself do anything interesting (such as move, or
> >> resize)?
> >>
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > mog
> >> >
> >> > On 2/26/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
> >> >> > oh i didnt type the other part, my bad.  I opened it up in twm and
> >> >> > ctrl click does the exact same thing.  I will try a knoppix cd
> >> tonight
> >> >> > I hope, but i doubt that will solve it, thanks for the suggestions
> >> >> > thus far.
> >> >>
> >> >> That's really odd!  Will be interested to see what Knoppix does.
> >> >>
> >> >> Just to check the obvious, how do you know that the application isn't
> >> >> broken? What do you expect Ctrl-Click to do, and in which app?
> >> >>
> >> >> Richard
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