software-trackpoint input driver

[Andrew Deason]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:38:38 -0500
Andrew Deason <adeason+lists at dson.org> wrote:

> I have a USB trackpoint device I would like to use with X on Linux
> (the trackpoint is the nub mouse thing on some keyboards, usually
> known for laptop keyboards). All current input drivers seem to
> interpret movement data for it incorrectly, and I'd like to fix that.
> But I'm unfamiliar with xorg development, so I'm not sure where such
> code "should" go.
[...]
> So my intuition says to just add support for evdev. Or the Linux
> kernel driver could do this kind of calculation itself, to make the
> device appear more like other trackpoint devices, like the PS/2 ones;
> then the evdev X driver would do the right thing. Am I on the right
> track, here?

Just in case anyone finds this via archives or whatnot and was wondering
what happened, I am indeed trying to fix this in the kernel. This patch,
in particular: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/31935>

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Andrew Deason
adeason at dson.org