apport information
** Tags added: apport-collected reproducible trusty ubuntu
** Description changed:
I'm testing with a freshly-updated Trusty Tahir daily (2014/March/2) on
a Lenovo X1 Carbon (2014 refresh) laptop.
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops have a "Trackpoint": a red "joystick mouse"
in the middle of the keyboard. Historically this is accompanied by
three mouse buttons directly below the space bar. One beloved feature:
if you hold down the middle mouse button, you can scroll a window
up/down/left/right with the Trackpoint. This feature is implemented in
X with the "Evdev Wheel Emulation" properties of the xinput driver for
the Trackpoint device.
The latest Thinkpad laptops (X240, X1 Carbon 2014 refresh) remove the
hard buttons, and have a "clickpad" instead of a trackpad. One must
use the "soft" mouse buttons provided by the clickpad. But now we have
a problem. The clickpad soft buttons are implemented in the Synaptic
driver. And the Synaptic driver doesn't support middle-button-
scrolling.
If I run
% xinput --list-props "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
I see property entries starting with "Evdev Wheel Emulation". Setting them
on this device doesn't enable middle-button-scrolling.
And if I run
% xinput --list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
I don't see those property entries at all. I tried setting them manually
with "xinput --set-int-prop" but they were ignored.
One of the maintainers of Arch Linux got middle-button-scrolling with a
Trackpoint + clickpad to work! But he had to create a new driver. It
looks like he started with the evdev driver, and merged in support for
the Synaptics and Trackpoint devices. The resulting driver is published
here:
https://bitbucket.org/esrevinu/xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint
- It would be fantastic if Ubuntu 14.04 also supported this feature.
- Thanks!
+ It would be fantastic if Ubuntu 14.04 also supported this feature. Thanks!
+ ---
+ .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
+
+ ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
+ Architecture: amd64
+ CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
+ CompositorRunning: None
+ CurrentDesktop: GNOME
+ DistUpgraded: Fresh install
+ DistroCodename: trusty
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
+ DistroVariant: ubuntu
+ EcryptfsInUse: Yes
+ ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
+ GraphicsCard:
+ Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16]
(rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2218]
+ InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-13 (0 days ago)
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140313)
+ MachineType: LENOVO 20A7CTO1WW
+ Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
+ PackageArchitecture: amd64
+ ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-17-generic.efi.signed
root=UUID=265f35f3-eb2b-48a6-bbed-84255b758df9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
+ Tags: trusty ubuntu reproducible
+ Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
+ UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
+ _MarkForUpload: True
+ dmi.bios.date: 12/03/2013
+ dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
+ dmi.bios.version: GRET29WW (1.06 )
+ dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
+ dmi.board.name: 20A7CTO1WW
+ dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
+ dmi.board.version: SDK0E50512 Std
+ dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
+ dmi.chassis.type: 10
+ dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
+ dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
+ dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGRET29WW(1.06):bd12/03/2013:svnLENOVO:pn20A7CTO1WW:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon2nd:rvnLENOVO:rn20A7CTO1WW:rvrSDK0E50512Std:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
+ dmi.product.name: 20A7CTO1WW
+ dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2nd
+ dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
+ version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1
+ version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
+ version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
+ version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0~rc3-0ubuntu3
+ version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
+ version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0~rc3-0ubuntu3
+ version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7
+ version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
+ version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
+ version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
+ version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
+ xserver.bootTime: Thu Mar 13 11:21:03 2014
+ xserver.configfile: default
+ xserver.errors:
+
+ xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
+ xserver.outputs:
+ product id 1049
+ vendor LGD
+ xserver.version: 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287148/+attachment/4022531/+files/BootDmesg.txt
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Thinkpad clickpad + Trackpoint cannot emulate middle button scrolling
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