On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Uno Engborg wrote:
Does anybody have any experience with the UltraNav pointing device on new
Thinkpads.
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
- 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).
it can be used that way yes.
- 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.
Not really in fact the 3rd button functioning as the third button should
be the defautl.
- Can I use the two large mouse buttons (the ones closest to the user) to
emulate a three button mouse?
yes
If it works will it need any kernel recompilations? Or does it work just out
of the box?
nope
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.
Anything else I should be aware of? With respect to UltraNav or Thinkpads in
general (most likely some
R-series model).
In general thinkpad pointing devices leave little to the imagination. My
expereinces are with the t42 t43 which work almost exactly as you would
expect them to.
Thanks!
/uno
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