configure-trackpoint

Configure-trackpoint is a Gnome TrackPoint configuration tool written by Cheuksan Edward Wang (<wang02139_AT_gmail.com>). It uses the linux kernel 2.6 TrackPoint driver written by Stephen Evanchik. If you are running a recent 2.6 kernel, this driver is included. Users of 2.4 kernel are recommended to use the Linux TrackPoint Utilities written by Till Straumann.

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Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) package
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) package
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) package is on the sourceforge project page. Please download configure-trackpoint_0.5-1_i386.deb

To download source code or file a bug report, please visit the sourceforge project page.

News

June 2007

Released configure-trackpoint 0.5. Works with more versions of kernels and distributions, including Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and 7.04 (Feisty). It automatically scans several directories for device files. Source code package and deb package for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty are both released.

April 2007

Released configure-trackpoint 0.4, compatible with current linux kernels.

September 2005

The trackpoint interface was changed for kernel 2.6.11. Martin Yalamov and Zdravko Nikolov have updated configure-trackpoint to work with kernel 2.6.11 and above. If you are using a kernel >= 2.6.11, please download version 0.3. Users of older kernels must use version 0.2.

November 2004

Cheuksan Edward Wang has written a TrackPoint configuration tool for GNOME: configure-trackpoint. It uses GNOME 2 and the linux kernel 2.6 TrackPoint driver written by Stephen Evanchik. Please download and give it a try.