Thinkpad X230 & Ubuntu 12.10

Trackpad:

  • No easy tool to control touchpad.

Using xinput

jony@Icarus:~/bin$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

To switch off trackpad : xinput set-prop 11 “Device Enabled” 0

To switch on trackpad : xinput set-prop 11 “Device Enabled” 1

  • How to control the sensitivity of trackpoint?

Audio Issues:

  • Internal speakers doesn’t work. Fixed with the new kernel (3.5.0-18-generic) update.
  • Mute button light is inconsistent. Sometime it comes up sometimes it doesn’t

Laptop Mode

2 Comments

  1. x3oo says:

    Did you find out how to control the mute-buttons?

    1. Johnny says:

      Not sure what you mean. Mute button works just fine. Sometime the mute light indicator goes mad …

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