Re: Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

["j t" <mark473@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
<bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's
> buttons) but i dont see
> any BIOS settings about this.

I don't know whether it'll help, but with my T60 I've also found that
shutting off the touchpad in the Bios has affected the trackpoint. As
a result, I leave them both enabled in the Bios but I stop the
touchpad from working in X by adding something like the following to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option         "CorePointer" # This line might need to be remmed out
        Option          "TouchPadOff" "1"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
        ...
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
        ...
EndSection

There's also a handy little program called xev which will tell you
what event X is seeing.

Of course, YMMV...