From: trackpoint
Subject:  Re: TrackPoint Support for NetBSD on IBM WorkPad Z50
Importance:    Normal


As a quick response until Barton replies, I can tell you that the
TrackPoint in the Z50 is attached to the Serial (RS-232) port.  The
TrackPoint firmware, and of course the driver, are different from those in
the TP770 and other ThinkPads.  There is some documentation on the
TrackPoint support website,http://wwwcssrv.almaden.ibm.com/trackpoint/
under Serial TrackPoint.  Most of the TrackPoint test programs work with
the Serial TrackPoint when the proper option switches are used.

               Joe Rutledge


Tak Pui Lou
<lou@man-97-187.reshall.berkeley.edu>@man-97-187.reshall.berkeley.edu on
08/06/2000 02:40:08 AM

Sent by:  lou@man-97-187.reshall.berkeley.edu


To:   trackpoint@almaden.ibm.com
cc:
Subject:  TrackPoint Support for NetBSD on IBM WorkPad Z50



Mr Barton Smith,

I am a proud owner of IBM Z50. I talked to the NetBSD people about
supporting the TrackPoint of Z50. They need the following information:

> Does z50 - Windows CE machine has same hardware between
>    Windows98 notebook such as TP770?

> But we have one more (and big) problem - no
> one knows where the device connect to.
> On Thinkpad, the device is connected to keyboard aux port normally.
> But you can't find the aux port on z50. So there might be other
> serial port somewhere. We need information about the port controller
> chip too.

If you can kindly forward the information to their mailing list
port-hpcmips@netbsd.org, I will be grateful for your help.

---
Takpui Lou