Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard w/ TrackPoint

[Jeremy Hendrickson-2]

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I purchased the following keyboard last week.
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003&current-category-id=E9ADAEB6787146E29B78400A33E7FE8A
I am attempting to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity in Ubuntu 9.04.  I have a Thinkpad T61 as well, and I can control its Trackpoint sensitivity via sysfs /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed].  I would like to control the USB keyboard trackpoint via sysfs as well.  Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On mar, 2009-09-22 at 09:38 -0500, Jeremy Hendrickson wrote:
> I purchased the following keyboard last week.
> http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003¤t-category-id=E9ADAEB6787146E29B78400A33E7FE8A
> I am attempting to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity in Ubuntu 9.04.
> I have a Thinkpad T61 as well, and I can control its Trackpoint
> sensitivity via
> sysfs /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed].
> I would like to control the USB keyboard trackpoint via sysfs as well.
> Can you point me in the right direction?
>
Not sure it's even possible, I can't really help you there, but I'd like
to ask you how do you find the keyboard? Is it fine, is it practical,
useful? Comparing with your T61 one?

I may buy one at one point, so would appreciate some input :)

Cheers,
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Yves-Alexis Perez

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Hendrickson <jhendrickson@...> writes:
[ Sorry, can't read html ]

> I purchased the following keyboard last week.
> http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003¤t-category-id=E9ADAEB6787146E29B78400A33E7FE8A
> I am attempting to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity in Ubuntu 9.04.
> I have a Thinkpad T61 as well, and I can control its Trackpoint
> sensitivity via
> sysfs /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed].
> I would like to control the USB keyboard trackpoint via sysfs as well.
> Can you point me in the right direction?

It looks like a similar keyboard to the ones I have (I have the
ultranav travel keyboards, which seem to be identical except for the
additional touchpad).

Under GNU/Linux, these keyboards just appear by default as generic USB
keyboards and mice.  The ones in your laptop appear as PS/2 instead.
So the PS/2 driver doesn't get to do its thing.  There is preliminary
support for such USB devices at:

   http://jan-steinhoff.de/linux/stick.html


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[Jeremy Hendrickson-2]

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It is superb.

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

On mar, 2009-09-22 at 09:38 -0500, Jeremy Hendrickson wrote:
  

I purchased the following keyboard last week.
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003&current-category-id=E9ADAEB6787146E29B78400A33E7FE8A
I am attempting to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity in Ubuntu 9.04.
I have a Thinkpad T61 as well, and I can control its Trackpoint
sensitivity via
sysfs /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed].
I would like to control the USB keyboard trackpoint via sysfs as well.
Can you point me in the right direction?

    

Not sure it's even possible, I can't really help you there, but I'd like
to ask you how do you find the keyboard? Is it fine, is it practical,
useful? Comparing with your T61 one?

I may buy one at one point, so would appreciate some input :)

Cheers,
  

[jhendrickson.vcf]

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[mikeyao]

I also buy a newest keyboard with trackpoint.

No /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed] in my system fold under Ubuntu 9.04. I also find whole  /sys/devices/platform/i8042 directory.
Is there a way to solve this problem ?

Jeremy Hendrickson-2 wrote:

I purchased the following keyboard last week.
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003¤t-category-id=E9ADAEB6787146E29B78400A33E7FE8A
I am attempting to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity in Ubuntu 9.04.  I
have a Thinkpad T61 as well, and I can control its Trackpoint
sensitivity via sysfs .  I would
like to control the USB keyboard trackpoint via sysfs as well.  Can you
point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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[Stefan Monnier]

> No /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/[sensitivity/speed] in my
> system fold under Ubuntu 9.04. I also find whole
> /sys/devices/platform/i8042 directory.
> Is there a way to solve this problem ?

Have you checked the answers to the email you quote?
Try http://jan-steinhoff.de/linux/stick.html


        Stefan

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