second day, i was set to fix issues. from my previous experiences with fedora 7.......i was not exactly sure how long that would take me~
anyway, first problem was to install livna repo, i downloaded the livna.rpm online from a search in google, then yum told me it couldn't install the package because the lack of a key file. "sudo rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY" solved it
using a ibm thinkpad without using the ultra-nav is like travelling in NYC without going up to the empire state building - it just missed the damn point of the whole thing. unfortunately that functionality was not working out of box. i did some search online, and included the following section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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also i added
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InputDevice "Trackpoint" "CorePointer"
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under the "ServerLayout" section
but you also need to delete the other corepointer device "synaptics" in order for this to work