Trackpoint

According to the ChangeLog for the 2.6.14 kernel, the TrackPoint driver is now in Linus' tree. Here's the ChangeLog entry:

commit 541e316aed6f7d6efeb427a88645c2a8f61418d6
Author: Stephen Evanchik <evanchsa@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 8 01:26:18 2005 -0500

    Input: psmouse - add support for IBM TrackPoint devices.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

 Changes were made to the Synaptics driver that prevent some pass-thru devices from working properly. The Synaptics fix will be in future kernels only, so I have updated the TrackPoint 2.6.12 patch to include the fix.

Download: trackpoint-with-synaptics-fix-2.6.12.patch

Oh, and I know the site looks ugly and is a little slow.. I'm working on both problems.

 I finally got around to learning about git and setting up my developement environment. I am using CENTOS now and its a bit of a change from what I am used to.

Download the patch: trackpoint-2.6.12.patch

If you use CENTOS, RHEL 4 or Fedora Core 4, then here is a SPEC file that you can use to rebuild your kernel SRPM. First install kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm and then download the SPEC file and place it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS . Run the following command to build the kernel tree:

rpmbuild -bb trackpoint.kernel-2.6.spec

Here is the latest version of my TrackPoint patch against Linux 2.6.11.7.

I have also created a SPEC file for FC4, RHEL 4, CENTOS 4. Download the SRPM kernel-2.6.11-1.1226_FC4.src.rpm
You can rebuild the SRPM with a command like:

rpmbuild -vv -ba --target=`arch` kernel-2.6.spec

 I just updated my TrackPoint driver so that it patches against 2.6.11-rc2. Starting with 2.6.11 the PS/2 layer now has its own communications library. This means that I have to maintain two versions of the driver until 2.6.11 is released.

Included in the 2.6.11-rc2 release is UltraNav support which I backported to 2.6.10. This means that ThinkPads (and other laptops) that have both a touchpad and a TrackPoint can now use both devices and take advantage of the extended TrackPoint properties. I still consider this preliminary support since I haven’t tested it very much.
TrackPoint / UltraNav 2.6.11-rc2 @ Clarkson