I was able to fix it with the comment by nschmelzle here:
https://gist.github.com/tsrivishnu/5b467f07374ce42ad6d97b6a3fdf0ea5
The problem was that the touchpad was using the synaptics driver, while the
trackpoint used libinput. The solution was to uninstall the synaptics driver:
apt remove
I have a similar problem as Ibrahim Awwal. I have just upgraded to 18.04
and my middle click scrolling stopped working.
my output of xinput list-props "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
Device 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint':
Device Enabled (143): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (145):
Ibrahim Awwal, given your environment stopped working after an upgrade,
you have a completely different problem than what was scoped to this now
closed report.
Hence, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring
you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you
Hey, I don't understand what happened, but after upgrading to 17.04 my
middle click scrolling is broken again. I'm pretty sure I'm still using
libinput:
$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint':
Device Enabled (140): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (142):
Hi All! I am having troubles getting this evdev driver patch installed
on my Ubuntu 14.04.3. Though I am a bloody beginner in package
development, I managed to compile it following d3pd's script
http://askubuntu.com/a/443668/491172, a derivative of Dominik Gierlach's
work.
The problem now is that
I know, it's not the best means of sharing this, but since it appears to be a
problem here:
Here is a more general way of solving this. Additionally, the script activates
natural scrolling.
#!/bin/bash
set -eu
id=$(xinput list | sed -n '/SynPS\/2 Synaptics
Fabio M. Panico, this is okay. These are settings that can be
configured.
1. Find out device ID: enter 'xinput' an look for SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad.
For me, it has id=13
2. Then enter 'xinput --set-prop 13 "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1'
I also have 'xinput set-prop 13 "libinput Click Method
Clean install of Ubuntu 15.10 x64 on a T440p and middle button would not
scroll.
After having installed xserver-xorg-input-libinput middle button works
for scrolling (with track button). But I don't have the ability to tap-
to-click (only regular click makes a click).
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I have updated to Ubuntu 15.10 and installed the library xserver-xort-
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get is
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So the right mouse button is on the bottom right and the middle
button/scrolling doesn't
For anyone coming across this, xserver-xorg-input-libinput isn't
installed by default in 15.10, you have to actually install it. But
yeah, it works perfectly after installing it. Took me a bit to figure
out what actually needed to be done, I guess I thought it was installed
by default.
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Although this bug is (rightfully) closed, there are interesting news:
With ubuntu 15.10, full clickpad support is provided by xserver-xorg-
input-libinput. No further configuration needed.
Tested with a T440s.
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Mihai Capotă, please do not adjust the status of this closed report. If
you have an issue, please file a new report.
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Christopher, could you please tell us why you closed the report? Clearly
the bug is not about Saucy, but about currently supported releases.
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Alloc, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Saucy reached EOL on July
17, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
If this is reproducible in a supported release, please file a new
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Christopher, as you must be aware, given that you commented on this bug
one and a half years ago, people have already reported that this bug
affects Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. So please do not close it.
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Oh nice, didn't see your ppa Dominik, it'll be nice to have it working
once and for all and not having to rebuild a driver each time the kernel
is updated. Thanks so much for making it! I wonder what needs to be done
for those patches to be included into Ubuntu proper, it seems crazy that
most/all
Installed dominic packaged and it worked, I can have scroll now with
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@William:
Thanks for the info!
I read into it. Fedora 22 uses libinput as input stack:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
Among the benefits:
middle top software button can be used to emulate wheel events on the
trackstick (on the Lenovo *40 series and related touchpads)
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2015-05-18 17:54 GMT+02:00 HumanPlayer2 rends...@gmail.com:
On mine as well. Thank you very much Dominik!
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And it works on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 2
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On mine as well. Thank you very much Dominik!
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For the record:
The ppa ppa:dominik-gierlach/thinkpad was updated for 15.04
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Still an issue in 15.04 for me also.
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This is still an issue, and now on 15.04 the old patches don't build
anymore :/
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Before I start work over AUR's pkg, I tried Bjornt ppa.
It didn't work for me at all - that's why I show up here :)
(maybe because I messed up smth with xorg /o evdev already - don't remember
now)
At begin of July I bought High-End MX TP-W540. I took me a month to solve it.
During that period
@Julian, #69: T_send's script and the ppa you list seem to be based on
the same arch package (there's a link in the script and one on the ppa
site to the same aur page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86
-input-evdev-trackpoint/ )
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I'm also using `xserver-xorg-input-evdev` from the
[ppa](https://launchpad.net/~bjornt/+archive/ubuntu/evdev)
One of the problems with this package is that it doesn't turn the
trackpad off while you're typing, resulting in lots of accidental
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Is the suggested patch the same that is included in this ppa?
https://launchpad.net/~bjornt/+archive/ubuntu/evdev
I'm using the above ppa, and it works fine, however, there is no
synclient, which makes on-the-fly reconfiguration difficult.
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Script needs to be upgraded,
I will do it soon
and upload ready-to-use for everyone.
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The trackpoint on new Lenovo's is currently unusable with Ubuntu. Is
there a plan to integrate T_send's fix into Ubuntu? It works for me,
but stops working after any software updates.
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This bug is still there. What's the world waiting for?
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T_Send, thanks a lot! I works nicely now on my T440p with Ubuntu 14.04,
finally!
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If you don't want to compile the package yourself, II created a ppa which
contains the patched xserver-xorg-input-evdev, including a working config in
xorg.conf.d. The package should also make sure that the conflicting synaptics
package is removed.
ppa:dominik-gierlach/thinkpad
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Persists on 14.10 with xserver-xorg-input-synaptic 1.8.1, T440P
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This bug is flagged as incomplete.
What information is missing to confirm the bug?
The problem is well defined, there is a confirmed duplicate/parallel bug
for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
The proposed patch appears to work fine for all thinkpads with clickpad.
What is the solution for this
When trying to run the script from post #50 i get this message (fresh
installed Ubuntu 14.04, X240):
cp: cannot stat
‘synaptics/src/{eventcomm.c,eventcomm.h,properties.c,synaptics.c,synapticsstr.h,synproto.c,synproto.h}’:
No such file or directory
patching file src/evdev.c
patching file
Just ran the script from post #50 on fresh Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 on
ThinkPad X240, worked as a charm!
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Thank you guys. T_send's script is working on X1 Carbon 2nd gen with
Ubuntu 14.04. Finally.
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I was perhaps too eager with the celebration. Synclient is now not
loaded on startup, making the trackpad not disabled.
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I re-installed the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package and rebooted and
now everything is working, including middle click scroll. Thanks you,
and sorry for flooding.
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T_sends script works well on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga on Ubuntu 14.04. Great
job!
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After executing T_send script middle button scrolling works perfectly on
my t440s (ubuntu 14.04). However since then synclient/syndeamon are
missing on my system?
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The script works perfectly on my t440p with kubuntu 14.04. Thank you.
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Benjamin Xiao, I just ried the script from T-send's post on my Carbon X1
(Ubuntu Gnome, 14.04), and that made the trackpad buttons normal -- and gave me
middle click to scroll! Yay!
Thank you T_send, and dalcde, and of course esrevinu!
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The script works for me too (T400s, Ubuntu 14.04), thanks T_send :))) I
tried a lot of other stuff to get it to work, nothing seemed to be
fixing the problem.
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T_Send - Thanks for your script, middle button scrolling is finally
working =)
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Lukas Cerman - I did some changes in dalcde's script. Try this one:
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install libevdev-dev libevdev2
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
wget
Hello,
I tried to follow dalcde's guide/script, but without a success.
Probably the packages changed since then. I am on a freshly installed
Ubuntu 14.04. When trying to apply the patches, I get the following
errors:
patch -p1 -i 0001-implement-trackpoint-wheel-emulation.patch
patching file
Does this bug also cover other issues with the X1 Carbon touchpad
buttons? None of the top buttons work for me and the bottom button
regions are huge (they take up 50% of the touchpad).
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Benjamin Xiao, no it doesn't. If you have a problem with that, please file a
separate report via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg
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done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1300620
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Thank you, dalcde, your workaround worked on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr.
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Actually I patched the debian package because Ubuntu 13.10/Mint 16 had
old evdev/synaptics versions. If you are on Trusty, then you can patch
the ubuntu packages instead (even though they appear to be identical).
Repalce the git clone lines with
apt-get source xserver-xorg-input-evdev
dalcde / Aurimas Fišeras, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and
problem may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the
following in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg
Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes
button for attaching additional
Solved the problem by the following procedures:
1) Download and extract the arch package
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf/xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint/xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint.tar.gz
2) Download the source packages of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.7.4 and
xserver-xorg-input-evdev_2.8.2
EDIT: the above script is run in the folder folder
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EDIT: For the script to work you need to have the build dependencies of
xserver-xorg-input-evdev and xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. To install
them, first enable source repositories
(Ubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/158871/how-do-i-enable-the-source-code-repositories
Mint: menu-software
Solved the problem with the following script. Requires source
repositories enabled:
Ubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/158871/how-do-i-enable-the-source-code-repositories
Mint: menu-software sources-Enable source code repositories
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get build-dep
How do I find out what the ids of the new bug reports are? I am follwing
this bug to decide if I can buy a new thinkpad
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ltmon / Larry Hastings, please do not mark this report a duplicate of
yours, or vice versa, as it's not considered a duplicate.
Barry Warsaw, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be
tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a
terminal:
I got esrevinu's driver to compile on Trusty Tahir. But using it caused
X11 to exit. I don't know enough about debugging such things to figure
out what went wrong.
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See also Larry's explanation in the dup bug: LP: #1287148
Maybe the Arch Linux package could be packaged for Ubuntu?
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I'm seeing this behavior too. I'm using Trusty Tahir on a 2014 Lenovo
X1 Carbon.
I tried compiling esrevinu's driver, but it requires automake-1.13 and I
couldn't figure out how to get that specific version.
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Alloc, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any
activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If
so, could you please test for this with the latest development release
of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com
/daily-live/current/
This is still definitely an issue, and not fixed upstream from what I
can tell. Apport for evdev coming soon.
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ltmon, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be tracked,
could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg
For more on this, please see the official Ubuntu documentation:
Ubuntu X.Org Team, Ubuntu Bug Control, and Ubuntu Bug
I also experience this on Saucy.
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I am now an Archlinux user. I made a patch to solve this problem. You can find
the patch in the following link:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint/
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@esrevinu: Thanks for the effort, but I'm having trouble to make it work.
Please refer to the following post:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1359126
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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