Knoppix on an IBM T40

[penguinx]

I am running Knoppix on an IBM T40 (3 years old).

1. How to get the scrolling stick (the nipple on the keyboard) to work? Being able to scroll is a super key feature.
2. Is there a monitor driver or color management download that can help me with the look of Linux on my laptop? It looks really washed out.
3. Using OpenOffice and Firefox and Konquerer for the first time. The fonts are extremely small and everything seems very square (especially in the address window of the browsers). Does this make sense to anyone? I've tried going to the options for each of the programs, but I can not seem to find settings that will approximate Word and IE in terms of look and feel. Any sites that post optional settings for best results?
4. When typing in OpenOffice, the space bar sometimes needs to be hit twice before it will advance past the last character.

There are other issues, but this is a good start. Thank you very much.

[OErjan]

1/ i have a IBM 570E it works there, guess there is a config somewhere for you.

2/ if you install Debian, Slackware, Unbuntu or any other of the HDD intended linuxes linuxes, you can get the ATI Drivers from ATI's download page.

3/ try pressing the control key and then tap the + to increase fontsize.
for some more things, try edit-->preferences-->contnt "tab"-->advanced. there you can play quite a bit with the look/feel of things.
cahange font, change minimum fontsize, change the pixelsize of font...

4/ no idea how this came about, i use Debian and Slackware and compiled OO myself.

[OErjan]

just found a page for the T40, lots of interesting info for you.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/linux-t40.html
here is a cut from that page, hope it helps

Trackpoint/Touchpad/Mouse

Ubuntu sets you up with the Touchpad and Trackpoint all ready to go. There isn't that much to do.

The relevant section of my xorg.conf looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Note that this is very slightly different from the default Ubuntu setup. I want a proper middle mouse button and don't care much for middle-button-scroll (the default behavior in Windows).

Since there are technically two mice at play here, the trackpoint and the touchpad, we need to tell the server layout to use both of them

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

[penguinx]

I spent the last 4 hours trying to untar a software package, only to fail. Looks like I'll be spending the morning trying to figure out how to turn the information you provided into something functional. Thank you so much for the lead!

I'll also check to see if the same site also has info on using the T40 back button keyboard shortcut.

Thank you!

[penguinx]

I am.

I'm at this point:

WindowMaker ko_KR.eucKR rgb.txt
X newxserver.xserver-3dlabs rstart
XF86Config.in newxserver.xserver-8514 ru
XftConfig newxserver.xserver-agx rxvt.menu
Xloadimage newxserver.xserver-fbdev sawmill
Xresources newxserver.xserver-ggi sysconfig
Xserver.xserver-common-backup newxserver.xserver-i128 twm
Xsession newxserver.xserver-mach32 xawtvrc
Xsession.d newxserver.xserver-mach64 xdm
Xsession.options newxserver.xserver-mach8 xfce4
Xwrapper.config newxserver.xserver-mono xinit
app-defaults newxserver.xserver-p9000 xkb
default-display-manager newxserver.xserver-s3 xorg.conf
fluxbox newxserver.xserver-s3v xorg.conf.200602221933
fonts newxserver.xserver-svga xorg.conf.20060504173856
icewm newxserver.xserver-vga16 xorg.conf.in
ja_JP.eucJP newxserver.xserver-w32 xsm

and can not figure out how to open the file and make the edits listed on the website you posted above.

Also, OErjan mentions going to ATI to install the driver, but when I try to install the driver I am told that I need a driver installed on the machine before I can update it to the ATI driver. Hmmm? Do I not have a monitor driver? I'll call IBM about this one, I think.

[OErjan]

no you must exit Xwindows, to install, read the howto on their site.
to edit the file, try

sudo mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
gahgh, I do not remember if Knoppix uses Xorg or Xfree86:-(
XF86Config
sudo mcedit /etc/X11/XF86Config
one of the two above should work.

it is the line

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

that is interesting to you.
and the two lines in "Synaptics Touchpad" part

InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
and

Option "HorizScrollDelta" "1"
have fun

[penguinx]

so I got in, I found the area you mentioned, I used the previous posting to change the input options and then I restarted. Now I recieve an error at boot and rather than go to my desktop it askes me to log in and then keeps me in a line code window. What's more, the mouse does not work at all. I've checked the code to make sure I copied everything exactly, but obviously I've done something wrong. Wondering how to get back to the previous settings? Hmmmm. Guess I was playing with fire.

[OErjan]

ouch, not good, try booting with the cd/DVD
klick on the corect partition on the desktop
close the konqueror window that pops up.
change the parttition to read/write (rightcick and actions...)
then you replace things as they where.
there is diferences between xorg and xfree, small but...
try a few diferent settings, there is usually a list of options above the section. if not i think i can dig one up, or you could try "man xfree86" or "man xorg" there you have LOTS of help

EDIT
hope I am right in this, I am away over holidays and have only a borowed Windows computer so this is all from memory.
/EDIT