Bug 505504

Created attachment 347514 [details]
10-x11-input.fdi

Works for me (Fedora 11 on a X61 thinkpad).

Note that you need to restart hal to grok the options. This should show the options (I don't like XAxisMapping):

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[vbraun@x61 ~]$ lshal | grep x11_options
  input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons = 'true'  (string)
  input.x11_options.EmulateWheel = 'true'  (string)
  input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton = '2'  (string)
  input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout = '200'  (string)
  input.x11_options.YAxisMapping = '4 5'  (string)
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You might need to fix permissions on the fdi file. I have

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[vbraun@x61 ~]$ ll -Z /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
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I've restarted hal (as well as the system after the changes to the fdi file. Doesn't have any effect.

$ ll -Z /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi

$ lshal | grep x11_options
$

lshal doesn't recognise the input at all. This worked in F10, so I don't understand what's missing. The .fdi file is the one I've attached.

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">

should be

<match key="info.product" contains="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">

I changed the 'string' to 'contains' but it's still not solved.

$ lshal  | grep IBM
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_IBM3780'
  info.product = 'PnP Device (IBM3780)'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_IBM3780'  (string)
  pnp.id = 'IBM3780'  (string)
  info.product = 'IBM Enhanced (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support)'  (string)
  pnp.description = 'IBM Enhanced (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support)'  (string)
  info.product = 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint'  (string)
  input.product = 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint'  (string)
$ lshal  | grep x11_options
$

I don't quite know. it's probably some little typo somewhere that I can't spot like this. the approach is certainly correct.

Copy the whole (original) file into /etc/hal/fdi/policies and remove all but one section (the input.mouse section). then add the x11_options to there, restart hal and check. if that works, modify the match line until it adds the keys.

contains does partial matching, so you can have a contains "TrackPoint". see if that works, as I said it looks like there's a hidden typo somewhere.

the reason for the copy into /etc is that otherwise your modifications will get overwritten next time hal is updated.

Well surprisingly it works now. I have this in my /usr/share../10-x11-input.fdi:

!-- From http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#Vertical_Scrolling -->
<match key="info.product" contains="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.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>

I tried a few combinations, created a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ dir and put a file in there which contained this snippet, that worked. Then I removed that file and put the text back in the file in /usr/share (and restarted hal and X) and that works as well.

I'm certain I had restarted my system the last time I tried this so even that can't have been a factor.

Anyway, can't this behaviour be enabled by default for ThinkPad owners?

no. emulate wheel is rather confusing when you don't know it's active. so activating it by default is not a good idea. user's would see scroll events when they haven't scrolled (because they didn't know the stick did it for them).

(In reply to comment #8)
> no. emulate wheel is rather confusing when you don't know it's active. so
> activating it by default is not a good idea. user's would see scroll events
> when they haven't scrolled (because they didn't know the stick did it for
> them).  

The scroll happens when you press the middle button and apply pressure on the trackpoint. This is the default behaviour on Windows as well. Also, users who use thinkpads arguably know how the trackpoint is to be used ;-)

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closing as NOTABUG, this was a configuration problem that is now resolved.
In Fedora 13, the same can be achieved with an InputClass section in the /etc/xorg.conf.d directory. Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration for more details.