Thinkpad X61T Hardware Controls

[glenndjackson]

Dear Porteus Community,

This is probably not a brief question, but I'll try.

I have Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet computers.
Those computers have a "joystick" button next to the screen, with an "Enter" in the middle, plus several other buttons along the bottom: rotate, toolbox, escape, and reset.

Porteus is the only distribution of the 20 I've tried in the last two years (including other permutations of Debian, LMDE, Debian itself) that supports those buttons.

I _really_ want to know what the difference is--what set of drivers, programs, utilities, or some other configuration, that makes Porteus support those buttons.

What I used to do on other Debian-like distros was use a combination of: xbindkeys, xev, rc.local, setkeycodes, and the keyboard shortcuts (Gnome2 or XFCE) to make these work. None of this works anymore, and Porteus supports the buttons out-of-the-box. My purposes really require these buttons to work, and Windows systems no longer support them either.

Please enlighten me any way you can. I will appreciate it.
Glenn

[brokenman]

Most probably it is the 'support for thinkpad' built into the kernel. My advice is ... use porteus.

[fanthom]

agree with brokenman.
please run 'psinfo' command -> send generated report to pastebin.com and link here so we can give definite answer.