I have installed Bookworm on an HP EliteBook 850 G1 and the trackpoint
is unusably slow. The first thing that I notice is that the kernel is
detecting the trackpoint as a "PS/2 Generic Mouse":

[62635.123626] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input59


I have tried all 4 options for the psmouse module protocol parameter:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse protocol=bare
sudo modprobe -r psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse protocol=imps
sudo modprobe -r psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse protocol=exps
sudo modprobe -r psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse protocol=any

but the trackpoint is always detected as a generic mouse. Also, the
problem persists whether I use the stable kernel (6.1.0) or the
backports kernel (6.12.12).

Is this a kernel bug? Is there a workaround?

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