Warwick Bruce Chapman

Getting Trackpoint scrolling working on a Lenovo X301 in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

Further to my previous post on this subject detailing how to get this to work on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), here are details for getting it working in Lucid (10.04).

If you followed the previous instructions, you will want to remove the file created there:
rm /etc/hal/fdi/policy/thinkpad.fdi

Create the file /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf as root with the following content:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Restart X/Ubuntu and test!

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4 Responses to “Getting Trackpoint scrolling working on a Lenovo X301 in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)”

• Getting Trackpoint scrolling working on a Lenovo X301 in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) |   Warwick Bruce Chapman Says:
  May 9th, 2010 at 7:41 pm

  [...] Note: I’ve written another post about getting this working in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). [...]
• pmodin Says:
  September 13th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

  Works as a charm on my x61s, thanks!
• |   Warwick Bruce Chapman Says:
  October 12th, 2010 at 8:04 am

  [...] in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and Intrepid (9.10) getting Trackpoint scrolling working meant editing the X.Org pointer [...]
• Trackpoint Scrolling on a Lenovo R61i in Ubuntu 10.04 « DensityWave Says:
  August 21st, 2011 at 2:44 pm

  [...] Big thanks to Warwick Chapman for his solution. [...]

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