Ubuntu/Linux newbie - lost scrolling functionality on IBM Thinkpad?

Asked by leduxity (45

) August 3rd, 2009

I just went for it and converted my IBM Thinkpad from Windows to Linux/Ubuntu, which I’ve admired from afar but don’t know too much about. The computer no longer has trackpoint scrolling—scrolling by holding the middle blue button and moving the trackpoint. This fix doesn’t work: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/duncanelliot/entry/fixing_thinkpad_trackpoint_scrolling_on_ubuntu_9_045.

Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

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I’m not sure off the bat, but you may very well find the answer on thinkwiki.

reactor5 (574

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That’s so odd. When I started using Ubuntu with my laptop it added scrolling; I didn’t have it on Windows. Let me look around for you here…

Okay, here’s a program that can configure your Trackpoint. It’s not in the Ubuntu repositories as far as I can tell, but you can download it here (sourceforge.net) and install it by double clicking it. This isn’t the ideal way to install software but it should work. Let me know if this works for you.

Welcome to the Ubuntu community! Be sure to check out Ubuntuforums.org; there’s lots of helpful people there.

potrick (370

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Thanks, potrick. I downloaded it and it works to configure other settings, but doesn’t add scrolling. I will search the Ubuntuforums.

I wonder what the removed posts said..

leduxity (45

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