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Hi all,

Like all of you, I want my TP's middle key scroll works. So I did some homework and made a driver about it. This driver also makes Trackpoint and w-touch Trackpad works together. Hopes you enjoy it, and please feel free to compile it for your platform or hack it.

test: only on my T60p 2007-93J
knowing issue: no h-scroll, no drag by trackpad's move with trackpoint's button and vice versa.

http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/2010/03/thin ... opard.html

2011/6/25

Server is under maintaining. Get it here. http://www.mediafire.com/?4tarp63q4zhnst8


4/3 Edit:

Horizontal scroll works!

5/3 Edit:

Fix: vertical scrolling does not work as expected sometimes.

OMG, you're a star! I tested your driver, and it is absolutely fabulous! Works like a charm on T60p, with both two-finger scrolling on trackpad and middle button with trackpoint! Thank you very much!

If possible, please compile it for x64 as well, I occasionally boot into x64 mode, so it would nice to have the same trackpad/trackpoint support there.

For those who do not know where to get latest VoodooPS2, here's the full package including brilliant new UltraNav driver: http://www.mediafire.com/file/nw0gmzqju ... inkPad.zip

Unpack it to /E/E or /S/L/E and regenerate kext caches with pfix.

nice. works for me too on x60t

Silencer wrote:If possible, please compile it for x64 as well, I occasionally boot into x64 mode, so it would nice to have the same trackpad/trackpoint support there.

Here you go ~

http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/2010/03/22/T ... ranavi.zip

adidasprince wrote:Here you go ~
http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/2010/03/22/T ... ranavi.zip

Thanks again, you're a legend! People have been looking for solution like that for ages, and now ThinkPad becoming even better than original Mac hardware

Thanks a lot for this great kext! now it feels like a real laptop again. One question though: I used to change my scrolling speed etc. in the VoodooPS2 PrefPane. With this driver, however, this does not work anymore. Is there any other option to control the settings, like a plist file? Or will there be a special PrefPane for your kext? Thanks in advance!

Update: Figured it out myself: You need to edit the file /System/Library/Extensions/VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ThinkpadUltranavi.kext/Contents/Info.plist . There is a key/value pair named VerticalScrollDivisor and HorizontalScrollDivisor. The value range seems to be between 0 and 100. The lower the value, the FASTER the scrolling is. I found 10 to be a good number for me.

unbehagen wrote:Update: Figured it out myself: You need to edit the file /System/Library/Extensions/VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ThinkpadUltranavi.kext/Contents/Info.plist . There is a key/value pair named VerticalScrollDivisor and HorizontalScrollDivisor. The value range seems to be between 0 and 100. The lower the value, the FASTER the scrolling is. I found 10 to be a good number for me.

There's an easier way You can adjust scrolling speed in Trackpad preferences, it affects TrackPoint as well

Updated

• horizontal scroll works now!
• typo ThinkpadUltranavi -> ThinkpadUltraNav (just wanna distinguish from other customized kexts)

Download

http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/2010/03/22/T ... traNav.zip

unbehagen wrote:Update: Figured it out myself: You need to edit the file /System/Library/Extensions/VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ThinkpadUltranavi.kext/Contents/Info.plist . There is a key/value pair named VerticalScrollDivisor and HorizontalScrollDivisor. The value range seems to be between 0 and 100. The lower the value, the FASTER the scrolling is. I found 10 to be a good number for me.

@unbehgen
I'm sorry that I didn't dig into the prefpane things. Silencer's suggestion is quite useful rite now.

Tested, and horizontal scroll works like a charm!

For those who are lazy, here's the complete pack: VoodooPS2_ThinkPad.zip

Looks like the x64 version of ThinkpadUltraNav.kext is problematic. I've finally tested it in x64 and got the following and Kernel Panic:

Not working on a X60t ... even if it seems to load properly and it finds a mouse during boot : I've tried Silencer's version of VoodooPS2Controller.kext and neither trackpoint nor scrolling work (no mouse found in SysPref ...)

Any idea ?

Ok, I've fixed the problem that I had. Default dependecies in Info.plist of ThinkpadUltraNav.kext were wrong. Here's the fixed version: VoodooPS2Controller_ThinkPad_i386_x64.zip

This is the part that needed to be fixed: Now it works fine in x64.

is it possible to use the middle mouse button as middle mouse button (for opening and closing tabs in a browser for example)

nuskoolkiddie wrote:is it possible to use the middle mouse button as middle mouse button (for opening and closing tabs in a browser for example)

This ultranavi kext doesn't work for me and I use SmartScroll to get Scroll with the middle button, and this button works like you say ... open in tabs ...

UPDATES:
* Fix: vertical scrolling does not work as expected sometimes.

http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/2010/03/thin ... opard.html

@Silencer
Thank you so much for the packaging and the x64 fix!! I merged it to my source.

@Sebinouse
I'm sorry that i don't have a x60t (tablets may differ from others) to test this kext.

@nuskoolkiddie
You may use SmartScroll as Sebinouse suggested. I'm sorry my kext is for those who wanted middle-button scrolling just like me and meself won't do anything about middle-button click.

My server is temporarily down until next wednesday ...

Hi!

Thanks a lot for your work!

Could you please post the source of your kext?
Just an example: I'd like to tune the speed between the Trackpoint and the Trackpad.
The mouse speed of the Trackpoint is just a bit too sentitive comparing to the Trackpad (i switch often between them). It would be great to change this.

Thanks!

max

max22 wrote:Hi!

Thanks a lot for your work!

Could you please post the source of your kext?
Just an example: I'd like to tune the speed between the Trackpoint and the Trackpad.
The mouse speed of the Trackpoint is just a bit too sentitive comparing to the Trackpad (i switch often between them). It would be great to change this.

Check out the link in the first post. The source code is available there.

whops! sorry, must have been very tired

Thanks!

Hey, adidasprince, I hope you still check this thread. There's a discussion going on in the thread regarding ThinkPad fan speed control under OSX, and I was hoping you might have a look there, since you're apparently the most experienced with low level programming amongst the crowd here. If you have some time, please check this link.

Guys, please share latest version of ThinkUltraNavi, 'cause http://wencheng.fang.sh.cn/ is down now. Thx!

adidasprince wrote: knowing issue: no h-scroll, no drag by trackpad's move with trackpoint's button and vice versa.

Any chance of getting the drag issue fixed? It drives me nuts b/c the left click of my touchpad is broken.

Re-compiled for Lion and tested on my T60p.

http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1639

Is it possible to increase Trackpoint sensitivity (speed)? If I drag the speed slider in the Trackpad prefpane all the way up, it is fast but really choppy. I tried lowering the divisor value in the kext's plist file but it only affected the touchpad.