Ubuntu – Linux: How to get the Thinkpad L530 trackpoint to work

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I've installed Ubuntu on my Thinkpad L530 and everything's running pretty smooth except for the trackpoint (that red button in between the keys for moving your pointer) as well as the corresponding left/right mouse buttons below the spacebar.

I only find solutions to fix scrolling, which didn't work but that's not addressing the problem anyway.

Has anyone found a way to use the trackpoint and buttons in Ubuntu 12.10?

Best Answer

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://thinkwiki.de/Ubuntu_ThinkPad_Extras_PPA

There is a code and a workaround, apparently.

The part of the page you're interested in would be here:

tp-trackpoint-Elantech (from Ubuntu 12.04, only ThinkPad L430/530) In models L430 and L530, the TrackPoint hardware (Elantech) is not recognized. The package contains a workaround solution and simultaneously activates the vertical scroll function with the middle button. For horizontal scrolling the file / usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-trackpoint-elantech.conf is to edit as in the previous section.

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