Re: pointing device on thinkpad

[bxf4@psu.edu (Brian P. Flaherty)]

Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:
>
> Thanks for trying to help.  Just for the record, that did not work.  
> The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
> /dev/gpmdata kills it completely.  In neither case will it work 
> outside of X.  Hey-ho, so it goes.

I don't have your machine, I have a newer thinkpad with the little red
pointer.  But I use gpm and X works fine.  On my thinkpad, my gpm.conf
has:

device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=msc
type=autops2
append=""
sample_rate=

Type msc above is MouseSystems Protocol in the XF86Config-4 file:

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
      Driver          "mouse"
      Option          "CorePointer"
      Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
      Option          "Protocol"              "MouseSystems"
EndSection

I hope this is helpful.

Brian