How to get the Thinkpad's trackpoint Click function working in FC4

[The Linuxator]

I remember noticing those features in MEPIS 3.3 in the control center you have the option of choosing settings either for a Sony Vaio or for an IBM Thinkpad.
Perhaps it's a feature only available in KDE , I am running Gnome BTW

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator

I agree with some of what you are saying, but can you explain this to me, where does it in the man page say that I need to downlaod the krnl source and work with arecompile the kernel, then replacing the original with the new one and ...etc ok wew were talking about patching the kernel,

patch is a generic utility. The manpage gives you information on that utility, but it cannot give you information on the context you need to use it in. Use your brain, you have it for a reason.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator

WOW, you are annoying you SNOB, how smart you think you are ? This forum is about getting help and especially if you are a noobie, you are such an arrogant POS
If you want to help out then your help is much appreciated and I will remember it for you, but if you want to sit there and start directing insults at me then take your help and shove it , getting a trackpint to work isn't worth my dignity.
You get someone and throw a man page at them, full of nothing they have passed on before, WTF ?

It's rude to expect us to do all of the work for you. You should always try to figure out the answer to a problem before asking for help. Read the man pages. Twice. Search google. Test a few ideas, and finally ask good questions. It doesn't seem like you did any of this. You had a minor issue, and expected us to give you the answer on a silver platter. Until you're my boss, that's just frigging rude.

You've started at least 8 threads here. Every one I've seen is just like this. "Help the poor newbie who refuses to do a damned thing for himself!" :roll:

 

[The Linuxator]

It's so easy for you to say n0cmonkey but I do not have all the time in the world to learn Linux but I am willing when it's gradual, windows took me sometime when I first started working on it in the Pentium 486 days, and I don't expect my Linux knwoledge to come out of no where in a day or two.
You can be an ELITIST person as much as you want, so you have seen me asking for help here and there but you turn a blind eye when you see me helping others with issues I have experiences with, fine with me, keep calling me a noob I don't think you are encouraging me to learn linux as much as you think you are, and keep throwing those man pages at me they are sure beginner friendly.
You and your elitist buddies keep living by the ideaology " To drive a car, you have to be a mechanical engineer"

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: Glendor
I thought I saw something INSIDE FC4 that you had to select if you had a ThinkPad laptop. There was also something specific to check if you have a Toshiba I think. I don't have my Linux box running or I would look for it myself, but I'm pretty sure that what I saw enabled certain features unique to the laptop brand. Maybe the trackpoint stuff is part of that.

Good Luck,
Glendor...

What you are talking about is the option to select which keyboard you have, you are given keyboard selections of many manafacturers including IBM ( 3 types of kedyboards), but nothing to do with the trackpoint unfortunatley

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
It's so easy for you to say n0cmonkey but I do not have all the time in the world to learn Linux but I am willing when it's gradual, windows took me sometime when I first started working on it in the Pentium 486 days, and I don't expect my Linux knwoledge to come out of no where in a day or two.
You can be an ELITIST person as much as you want, so you have seen me asking for help here and there but you turn a blind eye when you see me helping others with issues I have experiences with, fine with me, keep calling me a noob I don't think you are encouraging me to learn linux as much as you think you are, and keep throwing those man pages at me they are sure beginner friendly.
You and your elitist buddies keep living by the ideaology " To drive a car, you have to be a mechanical engineer"

I'm not being elitist by making you try things on your own.

The man pages are beginner friendly.

I'm not asking you to be a mechanical engineer, I'm asking you to try putting the car in first to see what happens before asking for help.

I didn't do this. I didn't expect someone to give me all of the answers, I read the documentation. I did't ask a billion questions, I read the documentation. I played around with the system. I tried a million things that didn't work. I screwed up the system so bad I had to reinstall, at least a dozen times (I did it last week in fact). I've gotten frustratd enough to throw a tower across a room. But I learned on my own.

Keep asking millions of questions. Continue to not learn. Whatever.

 

[The Linuxator]

As I said I have no time right now I need to get that trackpoint's click function working ASAP if I had time I would have sat down googled asked here and there read this and that, but I have alot of things to do on this thinkpad, and I would rather do them in Linux rather than have to do them in windows just for the sake of the trakpoint's click/drag function, I have done my research example I found this great website www.thinkwiki.org they have a lot of resources in the trackpoint section they show you the numerous patches for different Kernel Versions but nothing about how to patch it up, they do have a step by step guide on the configuration but not the installation of the trackpoint.