Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex – ThinkPad Middle Button Scrolling – EmulateWheel
Due to the changes in Xorg in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, middle button scrolling stopped working. Gone the days of simply emulating right from Xorg. Thanks to Phil, here’s the solution:
Instead of modifying your xorg.conf, create a new file called /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi with the following contents:
<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxsisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>
Then, do the following:
sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-evdev
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev
cd xf86-input-evdev
git reset --hard 5f2c8a2dcdf98b39997ee5e7c9a9ace3b640bfa3
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Finally:
sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
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16 Responses to “Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex – ThinkPad Middle Button Scrolling – EmulateWheel”
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karob on November 2nd, 2008
sorry, this does not work an x300 , ibex 64
could the “info.product”-key be an other?
greetings karob
Eastwood on November 2nd, 2008
Hmm… I’m not too sure about that. Google around and see if you can find a solution. If you do manage to fix it, it’d be great if you could post your solution here
Westy on February 11th, 2009
Thanks!!! That worked well on my T61p
Mathias Schulze on November 6th, 2008
On the X300 w/ Ubuntu 8.10, the name of the track point depends on whether you enable or disable the touch pad in the BIOS. Wheel emulation seems to work only with disabled touch pad.
Eastwood on November 6th, 2008
Mathias, thanks for the tip!
victor on November 9th, 2008
doesnt seem to work on X61 running intrepid 64bit. I did just only run an upgrade though, so maybe a clean install would work better.
Jonathan Addleman on November 15th, 2008
This doesn’t work for me either, on an X60s – I get this error in my syslog:
error in fdi file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi:1: not well-formed (invalid token)
phinn on November 17th, 2008
This unfortunately didn’t do anything on my Thinkpad T60. Still looking for a solution…
osr on December 11th, 2008
You can do it in Firefox by typing in the address bar about:config and changing general.autoScroll to true.
Eastwood on December 11th, 2008
What does autoscroll do?
dan on January 20th, 2009
beautiful. thx.
Michael Scheper on January 21st, 2009
That last command, sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart, blanked my screen immediately and a few minutes later I decided I just needed to do a hard reset (i.e. press and hold the power button). But when my system came up again, this worked! Thank you.
Val on January 24th, 2009
thanks osr, brilliant
gurbo on April 21st, 2009
Thanks Eastwood! It worked for me.
I’m running Intrepid 64bit on a X61 tablet
yan on May 31st, 2009
If it doesn’t work, try removing /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache and restart.
From: http://psung.blogspot.com/2008/09/scrolling-with-thinkpads-trackpoint-in.html
celian on January 6th, 2010
The firefox setting (“about:config -> general.autoscroll = true) does the trick for me (X200). Thanks!