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From: James <jtp@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:07:59
Message-Id: AANLkTingN1O+7J5jMJd4k=irzNDCFkE7Y0S2mmnN=o9X@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad by James
1 Any other thoughts / ideas?
2
3 Thanks!
4
5 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 22:40, James <jtp@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > Thanks for the responses folks. Neither suggestion made a difference;
7 > I disabled the "AllowEmptyInput" option, ensured xf86-input-evdev, and
8 > then removed all references to the trackpoint in the xorg.conf file.
9 >
10 > It's worth noting that if I configure the InputDevice (commented in
11 > the email below) to "TrackPoint" it works without issues (but then the
12 > trackpad doesn't work).
13 >
14 > Any other thoughts?
15 >
16 > -james
17 >
18 > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:17, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
19 >> On 01/04/2011 08:42 PM, James wrote:
20 >>>
21 >>> All,
22 >>>
23 >>> Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work
24 >>> simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant
25 >>> sections of my xorg.conf file.
26 >>>
27 >>> Section "ServerLayout"
28 >>>     Identifier     "Layout0"
29 >>>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
30 >>>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
31 >>>     #InputDevice    "TrackPoint" "CorePointer"
32 >>>     InputDevice    "TouchPad" "CorePointer"
33 >>> EndSection
34 >>>
35 >>> Section "InputDevice"
36 >>>     Identifier     "TrackPoint"
37 >>>     Driver         "mouse"
38 >>
39 >> If Mick's idea doesn't work, make sure you have xf86-input-evdev installed,
40 >> and remove anything about the Trackpoint from xorg.conf.  Evdev should find
41 >> and configure the Trackpoint automatically (for sufficiently large values of
42 >> should).
43 >>
44 >>
45 >>
46 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>