alan.lamielle.net » trackpoint http://alan.lamielle.net Alan LaMielle Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Thinkpad Trackpoint Scrolling in Ubuntu Karmic Koala http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/10/07/thinkpad-trackpoint-scrolling-in-ubuntu-karmic-koala http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/10/07/thinkpad-trackpoint-scrolling-in-ubuntu-karmic-koala#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:52:56 +0000 Alan LaMielle http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=529 Scrolling using the Thinkpad Trackpoint (middle click/hold + mouse nub) is still not fixed by default in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).  Here’s how I fixed it.

Following the instructions on this site, I created a new file (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi) as root that contains:

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>

If you don’t want to restart, you can log out and restart the gdm and hal services.  However, I simply restarted and scrolling worked upon logging in!

The document here is apparently the original source of this information.  I’m mostly posting this for myself for future reference (and in case either of the afore mentioned pages go down).

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