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On a Dell Precision laptop, there's a touchpad and an trackpoint.

I have an entry for the touchpad under settings - mouse and touchpad (LMDE XFCE), but nothing for the trackpoint.

I thought it was unavoidable, until I saw a more recent (Dell Latitude) laptop, with similar hardware, which has both entries under the settings.

They're both LMDUP8 but the older laptop was installed from 2012 ISO, the latter from 2014. The hardware has to be a little different. How could I force the trackpoint to be detected on the Precision PC?

TIA - regards, Daniel

Just a wild guess: is the trackpoint enabled in the BIOS?

I'm sorry I forgot to add something essential: the trackpoint does work. I suppose that it wouldn't if it was disabled in the BIOS. The only problem I have is, I can't customize it. (I'd like to accelerate it; it's definitely too slow.)

I'm rather thinking of a Xorg issue, because in the meantime I tried and It doesn't appear there. I guess it needs to be somehow declared, but where?

Trackpoint settings for my ThinkPad can be adjusted in the "mouse" section of "Control Center".

Granted, it should be there. Under XFCE it's Settings > Mouse and touchpad. Then the pointing devise must be selected from a drop-down list. And, on the Latitude laptop, I do have an option to select "trackpoint". But on the Precision laptop, this item is missing. So I'd say that on this laptop, I would need to "help" LMDE detect the trackpoint device.