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kaptainkal1
01-21-2004, 01:17 AM
I'm using Fedora Core 1, I was wondering, is there a way to get the touchpad and the other mouse device(don't know wut its called, but its in between the keys in the keyboard) to work undre linux?
Moparmike
01-21-2004, 01:37 AM
Well, it's not a Thinkpad but should be similar.
I have a Tosh Satellite Pro M10 with both a touch pad and a nav-stick. Mandrake 9.1 detects and enables both automatically as long as I don't have a USB mouse plugged into the machine during boot.

I'm working from memory since my laptop is a couple hours away right now...but I believe the built-in pointing devices are considered serial input devices.
Check your XFree86Config-4 file to see how they are setup. Post the info here and I'm sure someone can point out any errors there might be.

Good Luck!

PS: A friend of mine has a Thinkpad T21 running Mandrake 9.1 and his built-in input device is detected and operate properly. I think Fedora should detect them as well
kaptainkal1
01-21-2004, 01:38 AM
where's the config file for xfree?
Moparmike
01-21-2004, 02:05 AM
Try /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
If not there, try /etc/X11/XF86Config

Look for something along the lines of:
(BTW, this isn't from my machine, I just borrowed it from a post here.)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
ions
01-21-2004, 02:57 AM
http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/tpctlhome.htm

I dunno much about it but I think that may help.
mrBen
01-21-2004, 04:55 AM
The offerings on http://www.linux-laptop.net usually come with an Xfree config file.

Oh, and the 'official' title of the little navigation thing is a TrackPoint, but is often aka a nipple.
kaptainkal1
01-21-2004, 06:22 PM
Okay, I got the trackpoint to work. I disabled the touch pad, and the mouse (using the USB port) works as well. However, I installed the latest kernel, using an RPM made for Fedora Core 1, but for some reason, when i boot into the 2.6 kernel, my mouse doenst work. I plug it in, the light lights up, but i am only able to use the trackpoint. Does anyone know whats wrong?