On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:10:17PM +0100, Uno Engborg wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with the UltraNav pointing device on > new Thinkpads. Yep. http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html > Many people say that it works, but the question is, what does that mean? > The device consists of 5 buttons, a little rubber stick in the keyboard, > and a more normal > touch pad. > > -Will both the rubber stick and the touchpad area work at the same > -time? Yes. Which can be a hazard if you are used to using the stick and resting your wrist on the computer while you do so. > > - Can I use the upper three buttons as a normal 3-button mouse, or will > the middle mouse button > be uses in conjunction with the rubber stick to control scrolling. (Or > can I configure that somehow, > I think I would have preferred it as 3 buggon mouse). The upper three buttons constitute a 3 buttom mouse, which I use with the stick. > > - Is it hard to setup? What is the function out of the box without no > special tweaking of /etc/X11/xorg.conf apart > from what you get from the normal GUI fedora installer. I did nothing special. It worked "out of the box". > > - Can I use the two large mouse buttons (the ones closest to the user) > to emulate a three button mouse? Yes, but you may want to play with the definition of "simultaneous" in your X configuration. I haven't done so; I use the upper 3. > > If it works will it need any kernel recompilations? Or does it work just > out of the box? Not that kernel > recompilation is that difficult, it is just that it is much easier just > to be able to grab security updates from > yum without doing anything special. Works out of the box, as does most of the hardware. > > Anything else I should be aware of? With respect to UltraNav or > Thinkpads in general (most likely some > R-series model). See the notes on my web page. http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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