chromium on a thinkpad - trackpoint scrolling?

[Pat Erler]

is there a way to use the trackpoint (red rubber thingy) on a thinkpad running chrome os not just for mouse movement but for scrolling too (by holding the scroll button in the middle, like in windows)?

[Shawn Nematbakhsh]

Trackpoint scrolling should work fine on the Lenovo X131e Chromebook.
Are you having issues with a different Thinkpad?

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[Pat Erler]

I have chromium os (hexxeh) on a thinkpad edge E330 and the trackpoint doesn't scroll when holding the middle button.

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[Shawn Nematbakhsh]

Can you send me your 'dmesg' output? Also, have you tried a different
Linux distro (ex. Ubuntu) on your E330 and confirmed that scrolling
works OK?

[Pat Erler]

here you go. I will boot a distro right away and will come back in a minute..

[Pat Erler]

in ubuntu 12.04 desktop amd64 I can scroll with the trackpoint..

[Shawn Nematbakhsh]

Hi Pat,

I just remembered -- an xorg config file was needed to get Trackpoint
scrolling working. Please try copying the attached file to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and rebooting.

[Pat Erler]

very cool, for the technically not so inclined:

1. download the file
   
2. start a shell: Ctrl-Alt-T
3. shell ENTER
4. sudo su ENTER (password: facepunch)
5. mount -o remount,rw /
   
6. cp /home/chronos/user/Downloads/20-trackpoint.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
7. reboot
8. scroll

thanks very much!

[Pat Erler]

I have the feeling that the mouse speed setting doesn't correlate to the trackpoint movement, could this be? my mouse speed in on the highest setting, but it's much slower than on windows 7 in the default settings?