TrackPoint on knoppix 5.1.1 not working

[camorri]

I have a ThinkPad I Series model 1161-93U. The trackpoint works under other live CD's including Knoppix 3.9, DSL 3.1 and of WinXP.
It does not work at all under Knoppix 5.1.1.

I did some googling, and found several hits, each one editing xorg.conf to get the TrackPoint to work. I tried several different things without success.

I must admit I do not understand if I'm taking the correct approach or not. Here is a sample of what I changed the xorg.conf file for the mouse.


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "AlwaysCore"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

I changed the Server area, and the mouse area. When I did an init 5 the xserver would not restart.

At this point I would like to know if I'm taking the correct approach. Am I editing the correct file?

Where can I find information on getting a track point working?

If the track point won't work, is it possible to get a regular two button mouse to work? I did try pluging in a known working 2 button mouse in the PS/2 port ( in works on other systems ) but that doesn't budge the pointer either.

[camorri]

Well, after a great deal of googling, I have found an answer that got the TrackPoint working. Here is what I did.


Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the lines used fot the serial
mouse.

The section should look like this.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Emulate3TimeOut" "50"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Open a konsole and su, and init 2. Edit the file with mcedit and save. Restart the xserver with init 5.

At this point the track point works as a three button mouse. BTW as a work around while I was working on this, I enabled the mouse to be operated from the numeric keypad through KDE. That did work, even when the track point didn't. There is a bluse Fn key on a thinkpad, you need to hold it down to activate the numeric keypad. Fn is like another shift key. On a laptop there is not a separate key pad like you get on a 105 key keyboard.

I hope this post helps someone else save the hours I invested in getting this thing going.