Dear Linux developers,
First of all, thank you for the work you do with your contributions every day.
Much appreciated.
I have been having problems for some time to be able to use the trackpoint
(the red button with mouse functions) that the keyboard of my Thinkpad T530 has.
I have had this problem in Debian 11 with Linux 5.14 and now in Debian
Testing with Linux 6.1.
I think this setting should enable the Trackpoint:
root@orion:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf
options psmouse synaptics_intertouch=1 proto=any
In fact, after this configuration I am able to see it with xinput:
viper@orion:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
But it does not work. A look in syslog shows the following:
root@orion:~# tail -F /var/log/syslog
2023-04-01T11:48:57.295761-03:00 orion kernel: [ 634.652388] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:48:57.959746-03:00 orion kernel: [ 635.316599] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:48:58.623769-03:00 orion kernel: [ 635.978783] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:48:59.287780-03:00 orion kernel: [ 636.642962] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:48:59.955781-03:00 orion kernel: [ 637.311116] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:49:00.619767-03:00 orion kernel: [ 637.975234] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:49:01.279768-03:00 orion kernel: [ 638.636391] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:49:01.951713-03:00 orion kernel: [ 639.306422] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:49:02.615760-03:00 orion kernel: [ 639.970611] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
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Using this setup I am able to enable the Trackpoint, although it is
detected as a
PS/2 mouse and it is extremely slow:
root@orion:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf
options psmouse synaptics_intertouch=1 proto=exps
viper@orion:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
root@orion:~# tail -F /var/log/syslog
2023-04-01T11:50:59.559695-03:00 orion kernel: [ 756.915044] psmouse
serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
2023-04-01T11:51:03.475677-03:00 orion kernel: [ 760.833751] input:
PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input23
2023-04-01T11:51:06.334813-03:00 orion (udev-worker)[4466]: input23:
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-trackpoint.rules:1 Failed to write
ATTR{/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/i>
2023-04-01T11:51:06.967054-03:00 orion kded5[4476]: Initializing
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_mouse.so"
2023-04-01T11:51:07.884147-03:00 orion kded5[4476]: Initializing
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_touchpad.so"
2023-04-01T11:51:07.884468-03:00 orion kded5[4476]: kcm_touchpad:
Using X11 backend
2023-04-01T11:51:07.885260-03:00 orion kwin_x11[2328]: qt.qpa.xcb:
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 6268, resource id:
60817413, major code: 18 (Ch>
Here's some more information, though if there's anything else I can provide to
help resolve this, please let me know:
root@orion:~# dmesg | grep -i Trackpoint
[ 535.610685] psmouse serio1: trackpoint: IBM TrackPoint firmware:
0x0e, buttons: 3/3
[ 535.661460] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input20
Since the Trankpoint works perfectly in KDE under FreeBSD detecting it as
"TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint", I think this is more of a software problem than a
hardware one.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Daniel
