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I have just installed Feisty on my new Thinkpad R60E .

I've managed to make trackpoint scrolling work. However I'm stuck at "trackpoint press to click" i.e. making trackpoint press/tap emulate a left click.

I did go through thinkpad wiki, but they talk about patching the kernel and all. The thing is, I don't want to use that route since I'm not sure if I have to repeat the process every time ubuntu update manager tries to update my kernel.

Is there any other way to enable "trackpoint press/tap to click" in Ubuntu?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance!

See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co ... _to_Select

Press to Select allows you to tap the control stick which will simulate a left click. You can enable this feature by typing the following in to a terminal (you may need to be root):

# echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/serio2/press_to_select

This can vary. Here, it's:
# echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/press_to_select

Best regards,
Whoopie

Whoopie wrote:See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co ... _to_Select

Press to Select allows you to tap the control stick which will simulate a left click. You can enable this feature by typing the following in to a terminal (you may need to be root):

# echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/serio2/press_to_select

This can vary. Here, it's:
# echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/press_to_select

Best regards,
Whoopie

Thanks Whoopie for responding. But on my machine (which has a fresh install of Feisty) I don't have "serio2/press_to_select" folder.

Have you installed some third party driver for the trackpoint?

edit:
I just found this snippet in the discussion page of that wiki. Other people claim the same:

On Fedora Core 5, with kernels 2.6.15 and forward, the path does not include serio2; it stops at serio0.

Same thing on a Ubuntu Dapper install on an X31, again with kernel 2.6.15 (maybe that's the reason? Piccobello 17:02, 26 November 2006 (CET)).

thanks

For some weird reason, my trackpoint settings are located in

/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input:mouse2/device/

instead of

/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/

and now I have managed to enable trackpoint "press to click" along with the ability to adjust trackpoint parameters like sensitivity etc!

Thanks Whoopie

oh btw, if it helps, my kernel version is 2.6.20-16

thanks again