Bug 1173699 - New ThinkPads' TrackPad/TrackPoint is not supported, but ArchLinux+Ubuntu has patch
Summary: New ThinkPads' TrackPad/TrackPoint is not supported, but ArchLinux+Ubuntu has...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-evdev
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-12 17:36 UTC by rendsvig
Modified: 2015-03-16 10:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-03-16 10:59:00 UTC
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Description rendsvig 2014-12-12 17:36:12 UTC
Description of problem:
On newer ThinkPads, the physical buttons for the TrackPoint have been removed in favor of one big touchapd with soft buttons. 3.This means that scrolling with the TrackPoint + Middle-Click no longer works.

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How reproducible:
All newer ThinkPad models, reproducible across distributions.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Linux
2. See that it doesn't work

Actual results:
Middle-click + TrackPoint movement does nothing.

Expected results:
Middle-click + TrackPoint movement invokes scroll.

Additional info:
There is a solution available for Arch Linux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint/) which works wonderfully for Ubuntu as well (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/1246683/comments/50 )

Comment 1 Efe Gürkan YALAMAN 2015-03-12 09:11:56 UTC
I can confirm this for fedora 21 on Thinkpad L540.

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2015-03-16 10:59:00 UTC
Hi,

Middle button trackpoint scrolling on the T440 and similar models is supported by using the new xorg-x11-drv-libinput driver.

You can install this on F-21 by doing:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-libinput

On F-22 this is the new default driver. Note that on F-21 gnome's control-panel cannot change mouse / trackpoint settings when using this new driver. Either update to F-22 alpha (which is pretty stable) or use the "xinput" cmdline tool to change the driver properties directly (or use the default settings).

Regards,

Hans


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