🚀 go-pugleaf

I had the same problem on a Think Pad T21. I never did fix it. It was a bug
fix in 8.1 so I just downloaded 8.1 and used it
"Dances With Crows" <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:02:05 -0700, aarfle staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> >"Alex Hern�ndez" <aonyate@yahoo.es> wrote in message
> >news:MPG.162c1162e6ac5414989683@news.teleline.es...
> >> Hello. I own an IBM ThinkPad 380Z, I can't make neither its pointer
> >> nor other PS/2 mouses work properly under Linux Mandrake 8.0. Once I
> >> could, but I can't remember how did I make it, lotsa Kudzus and
> >> mousedrakes; my kernel is 2.4.3-20mdk, just from the box. The USB
> >> mouses work properly, but I do want to use the trackpoint.
> >>
> >> I plan to re-compile the kernel, but before I do that I would like to
> >> know if there is anybody with the same or similar problem so I can
> >> make it work.
> >Please post your solution if you find one --- same problem here with a
> >ThinkPad.  I've tried the suggestions on this BB and from Mandrake
> >Expert, but it is not working.  In the meantime, back to Win2000.
>
> The stock 2.4 kernel on Mandrake 8.0 contains a patch that breaks the
> Trackpoint handling on just about every Thinkpad.  Do the install
> without the trackpoint and then upgrade to an official kernel, which
> works flawlessly with the trackpoint, or install with the 2.2 kernel (I
> assume you can do that), or use SuSE or RedHat or Debian instead.
> Mandrake's site has an alternate boot floppy somewhere with a kernel
> that doesn't have the trackpoint problem.
>
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