https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=LaLuThinkWiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-05T23:40:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.12https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Patch_to_enable_advanced_trackpoint_configuration&diff=6728Talk:Patch to enable advanced trackpoint configuration2005-07-20T14:31:51Z<p>LaLu: /* Middle Button Scrolling */</p>
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<div>IMHO the driver should not emulate a mousewheel, this should be done by the Xserver.<br />
e.g. (for Xfree86)<br />
Section "InputDevice"<br />
Identifier "TouchPoint"<br />
Driver "mouse"<br />
Option "CorePointer"<br />
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"<br />
Option "Protocol" "auto"<br />
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "1"<br />
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"<br />
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"<br />
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"<br />
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5" <br />
EndSection<br />
However, when I tried this I found the scrolling too jerky and missed the third mouse button.<br />
--[[User:Onion|Onion]] 00:27, 5 Feb 2005 (CET)<br />
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I've used the trackpoint as mentioned above with the following additional section for an USB mouse:<br />
Section "InputDevice"<br />
Identifier "USB Mouse"<br />
Driver "mouse"<br />
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"<br />
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"<br />
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"<br />
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br />
EndSection<br />
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However, I've used /dev/input/mouse0 for the trackpoint and /dev/input/mouse1 for the USB mouse.<br />
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As of Kernel 2.6.10, the middle USB mouse button (used for pasting) doesn't work anymore (same config as for Kernel 2.6.9, execpt for the newly included ibm-acpi support).<br />
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Anyone one else with the same problem or with a solution?<br />
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[[User:Cryptom|CrypTom]] 10:29, 8 Mar 2005 (CET)<br />
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Any word on 2.6.11 support? I've seen the treads about this being included in the main tree but I guess it didn't make it. Any sign of a patch?<br />
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Elsewhere on the linked-to-blog ( http://stephen.evanchik.com/index.cgi/2005/01/index.html ), there is mention of a 2.6.11 patch. It's for 2.6.11-rc2, but should be worth a try. There're even newer patches here ( http://people.clarkson.edu/~evanchsa/software/kernel/patches/ ).<br />
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Thanks, this patch applies cleanly to 2.6.11:<br />
http://people.clarkson.edu/~evanchsa/software/kernel/patches/trackpoint-2.6.11-rc3.patch-1<br />
seems to work for me.<br />
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== scrolling with firefox ==<br />
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Firefox has an option to do smoothscrolling when you push down the third mouse button :)<br />
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== Middle Button Scrolling ==<br />
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On http://people.clarkson.edu/~evanchsa/ I read, that middle button scrolling is no longer supported. I couldn't find any additional information on this topic!? Anyone knows why support for mb scrolling is dropped?<br />
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--[[User:Cryptom|CrypTom]] 17:46, 18 May 2005 (CEST)<br />
The scroll support was buggy. It is now done through the Xorg input driver, so there's no need to support it anymore.<br />
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I removed all the configuration instructions from this page and created [[How to configure the TrackPoint]] from it. (Actually that page should be extended to tell about tp4d configuration as well.) Doing so, i also cleaned up some of the outdated information on this page.<br />
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Wyrfel.<br />
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--[[User:LaLu|LaLu]] 16:22, 20 July 2005 (CEST)<br />
So there isn't any way to use the trackpoint button 2 to paste ... This is really annoying, I used this button a lot while coding.<br />
Do we have to wait for the option EmulateWheelTimeout to be implemented or is there any workaround ?</div>LaLu