Bug#682413: USB TrackPoint keyboards unusable since synaptics-usb was included
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 03:24:45 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 17:34 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> [...]
> > If anyone here would like to test these out and see how the trackpoint
> > behaves, it would be appreciated. If you don't know how to run such
> > patches, I can provide info on how to do that. (Providing a debian
> > package I'm not sure would work, since we already have a synaptics_usb
> > driver in the regular kernel package... and I don't want to have to
> > generate an entirely new kernel package just for patching this one
> > driver.)
>
> There are generic instructions for that here:
>
>
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official
I didn't tried the patch, but I've the same problem with the SK-8845
IBM/Lenovo keyboard. Still not fixed in 2014?
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