Trackpoint

Success with the TrackPoint driver

Posted March 23, 2004 - 12:29pm by Stephen Evanchik

I just received a nice email from someone who found my TrackPoint Driver useful. I’ve been wondering if it will work on all ThinkPads, so if you don’t see your machine listed below send me an email with the series and model number and I’ll post it below:

  • T21 Series
  • T23 Series
  • T40 Series

Using the TrackPoint Driver

Posted March 23, 2004 - 11:28am by Stephen Evanchik

I probably should explain how to use the TrackPoint Driver instead of just providing the kernel patches. Here’s some more information to help you use the driver.

Compiling the driver

You must compile PS/2 mouse support as a module as seen in the following:



Example make menuconfig for psmouse as a module





Configuring the driver

In my /etc/modprobe.conf I have the following: 

options psmouse speed=120 sens=240 pts=1

Which turns Press to Select on, adjusts the speed and sensitivity accordingly.

Linux 2.6.4 patches

Posted March 12, 2004 - 1:32am by Stephen Evanchik

 I just updated my USB UHCI Resume patch and my TrackPoint Driver to work with Linux 2.6.4.

As always, check out Stephen @ Clarkson for the code.

Take that Mike McCabe.

IBM TrackPoint Driver for Linux 2.6.3

Posted February 23, 2004 - 4:35am by Stephen Evanchik

I updated my TrackPoint driver to work with the new release.

Things are a little cleaner as far as the patch goes but no new functionality. I’m working on getting sysfs integrated but I have no clue where to root my entry.

It’s nice to have some driver documentation at LWN.net. They’ve done a good job and summarizing what I need so I don’t have to dig through the headers as much.

TrackPoint Driver @ Clarkson

IBM TrackPoint driver for Linux-2.6.3-rc2

Posted February 12, 2004 - 5:36am by Stephen Evanchik

Well, I finally got around to making the TrackPoint driver something more than a toy I use.

I can set the sensitivity and a few other settings via module parameters. I hope to add sysfs support in the very near future. In order to do that I have to figure out where to root the trackpoint directory.

You can get the driver from my Clarkson web space.

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