Enabling thinkpad features on Linux

[taiwwa]

I recently installed fuduntu linux on a thinkpad I own. Was impressed. But some features didn't work.

In particular, these I cared about:

-- trackpoint sensitivity I could not adjust

-- middle scroll button.

Most of the fn functions seemed to work, but didn't test them all.

How to enable those in linux?

[Neil]

For trackpoint sensitivity adjustments and middle button scrolling on Linux the easiest method is to install GPointingDeviceSettings, but it is not currently available in the Fuduntu repo. I understand that Fuduntu packagers are working on it, and should have it available in their testing repo in a couple of weeks.

They do currently have these in the repo:
acpitool
hdaps-gl
kmod-tp_smapi-dkms
thinkfan

And I'm told they are also working on having tpb (Thinkpad Buttons) in the repo soon too.
Fuduntu is shaping up to be a fine rpm based ThinkPad distro. And the dev team seems to be made up of some really nice and helpful folks.

[Neil]

Fuduntu is shaping up to be a fine rpm based ThinkPad distro.

Well, wouldn't you know, a little more than two weeks after I make a statement like this, it's announced that today the Fuduntu project has ended.
http://www.fuduntu.org/blog/2013/04/28/project-ends/

[Cigarguy]

^^^ Your next statement should be: "Lenovo will never offer up the classic keyboard as an option, bring back an IPS display or 4:3 format screens."