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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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