Re: Thinkpad E320 trackpoint doesn't work every time
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:17:32 -0500,
Selim T. Erdogan<selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Andreas Rönnquist, 21.10.2013:
>>
>> I have recently got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 - and it
>> works very nicely - with one small exception:
>>
>> I have got the habit to use the touchpad but not the "mousebuttons"
>> underneath the lower part of the touchpad, but instead I use the
>> extra buttons just above the touchpad that are intended for usage
>> with the trackpoint. - (I have a bit of a hard time pressing the
>> buttons underneath the touchpad without moving the mouse by mistake).
>>
>> However, every now and then the trackpoint and its buttons are not
>> active after a boot - the touchpad still works, and the buttons
>> underneath the touchpad, but not the trackpoint and its buttons.
>>
>> Does anybody know a way to reactivate them without having to reboot,
>> or to make them work every time, or know what is causing my problem?
>
>Have you tried running xinput when they are not active? You would at
>least see if they are listed.
>
Thanks for the tip! However - for some reason I have not run into the
problem for some time now... I guess its the typical scenario - report
a problem, and then after that you don't run into it when you have
debugging possibilities....
Anyway, thank you for the hint - I will try it the next time I have
problems with it.
- Just for completion, xinput reports the following output now, when the
mousebuttons and everything else work just fine:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
Anyway, thanks for your input -
-- Andreas Rönnquist
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