Thinkpads Forum

So far everything is installing perfectly. I'm not yet done, but since I'm able to get online with the wifi.. so here I am.

The only difference is that I have an Intel 2200BG instead of the Cisco Aironet.

And it even detected my volume buttons. Neat-o

Other stuff that seems to work/not work..

Touchpad with scrolling works
Middle button.. well acts as a middle button. Not scrolling.

Add these lines in the 'Configured Mouse' section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for the middle button:
I can't vouch for whether that will enable scrolling on your R40, but it works on my X41.

Lots of helpful stuff here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

There are also some hoops you would have to jump through to get horizontal and vertical scrolling to work in browsers like Opera and Firefox. Did those edits to the xorg.conf file work alright for you?

Chris, I'm not sure if you meant me or the OP in your last reply.

Horizontal and vertical scrolling in Firefox worked out of the box; I didn't have to fiddle with anything. However, since this is a tablet PC I also installed the Grab and Drag extension for even more convenient scrolling with both the trackpoint and the pen.

I did, however, have to hack Firefox to get the browser forward and back buttons on the ThinkPad keyboard to work. They worked with Konqueror out of the box.

Well, I meant the OP, but that's fine too.

I think that the Grab and Drag extension helped out there as I have had to configure Firefox as such on various platforms to work like that.

k0lo wrote:Add these lines in the 'Configured Mouse' section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for the middle button:

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Section  "InputDevice"
  Option  "Emulate3Buttons"  "true"
  Option  "EmulateWheel"      "true"
  Option  "EmulateWheelButton"  "2"

I can't vouch for whether that will enable scrolling on your R40, but it works on my X41.

Lots of helpful stuff here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

How do you save this file???
I tried to enter as root but i do not have any password for it.

I recently installed UBUNTU 6.06. Any hint?

In the terminal window type:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It will prompt you for your password, enter it.

The file should load in the text editor and give you the option to save.

azimi3 wrote:In the terminal window type:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It will prompt you for your password, enter it.

The file should load in the text editor and give you the option to save.

Thanks
But the problem is that during install Ubuntu did not ask me any root pwd that i remember, just one for a user that it created. Is there any default one?

When you use the "sudo" command, the password that you are prompted to enter is your user password, the one that you created when you installed Ubuntu.

Not to make things more confusing, but you would use sudo when doing an operation from a terminal window that requires root access. When you are running a graphical application like gedit, instead of sudo you would use gksudo, therefore try:

Confusing indeed

But it worked. Thanks a lot.

Good point k0lo. I never really took that seriously before but after reading up about the difference between sudo and gksudo it's clear that it does make a difference. Here's a good explanation:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

I applied that "patch" too and it works, but I'm used to middle click on a tab in firefox to close it and that doesn't work anymore now... anyone an idea how I could enable that?