[ltp] Trackpoint in Slackware

[Oleg Bartunov]

Audrius,

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Audrius Kaukauskas wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Some time ago someone in this list wrote, that he couldn't get
> trackpoint recognized in Slackware and configure it through /sys

it was me !

> interface.  I also had this problem, but didn't care about it too much
> (read: was too lazy) until today.
>
> So, I went to thinkwiki.org and after wandering around for some time saw
> a notice, that psmouse driver is blacklisted in Slackware 12 (in
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist).  I am using -current and didn't find
> anything there, BUT /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse had a line
>
>  options psmouse proto=imps
>
> After commenting it and "rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse" all additional
> trackpoint related files appeared in
>
>  /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/
>
> (according to another notice in thinkwiki, this is due to my R61i not
> having a touchpad).  I tried to set different speed and sensitivity, and
> it works as expected.
>
> The problem here was IMPS protocol, which, as I understand, treats
> trackpoint just as ordinary mouse.

Cool ! It worked for me! Please, add a line to thinkwiki


 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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