Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

Hi,

Im running Lenny on a ThinkPad T60. I got the computer from a friend and dont know if
this worked on it beforehand.

The middle mouse button doesnt work in X--just no response at all to try to paste things.
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.

How can i figure out why this isnt working? For all i know it could be a hardware problem,
but maybe theres something in my X configuration about it? I didnt touch the X configuration
myself, its what the installer generated.

Thanks!

Jen

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...


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