>
>>Do you have specs on the Trackpoint PS/2 mice found on Thinkpads?
>
>No. 
>
>>The version on my 770X has a double click by "pushing hard on the
>>trackpoint" feature.  It also has the ability to do the scroll
>>thing if you hold the middle mouse button and move the trackpoint.
>
>You mean, there features are available in W*ndoes, but not in 
>FreeBSD?

Yes.

>There can be two possible explanations:
>
>a) These features are implemented in the device firmware level and
>need to be explicitly activated by the driver software on the host
>computer.  W*ndows driver knows it, but our psm driver doesn't.

This would be my guess.

>b) These features are entirely implemented by the W*ndows driver
>software.  The TrackPoint itself is behaving just like the ordinary 2,
>or 3, button pointing device.  The W*ndows driver is so smart, our psm
>driver isn't :-)

Could be.  PSM does see it as just a 'Generic' device, but I do notice
some odd behavior if I move the trackpoint really fast.  I've always
assumed that this was from a spurious double-click event caused by pressing
on the trackpoint, but I could be wrong.

--
Justin




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