New Install of Mint 21 on New Lenovo 480s

[muttleytm]

I just got a new to me t480s and did a fresh install of Mint 21. All went well, set my location, did the updates as well.

So far the wifi doesn't like my password, that was right off the bat. I continued with network cable.

After I did the updates, and got a few things setup and rebooted it runs fine other than the trackpoint and trackpad quit working. I don't care so much about the pad, but I like to use the trackpoint.

I can remember and issue like this a few years ago with a different computer and an earlier OS after an update, but can't remember how I got it resolved.

[axrusar]

I am on 20.3 with my thinkpad T480s.
I get this:

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─[✗]─[axo@thebox]─[~]
└──╼ $xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Elan Touchpad                           	id=14	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Elan TrackPoint                         	id=15	[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: Integrated C         	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=16	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=17	[slave  keyboard (3)]

What about yours?

Then you can try resetting them:

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

[muttleytm]

I'd been intending to give and update, but I had a few other things I had to do first.

I got both issues resolved, although I'm not sure just how.

I installed a lot of apps on the new computer and also moved a lot of files over to it. The files were all things from the home folder, so there shouldn't have been any system settings though.

So later last evening I unhooked the ethernet cable and thought I'd see if in doing all of that I might have done something to fix the wifi. It still didn't connect, but as I was looking through the list of available wifi connections I found two with the name of mine. One of them had a series of numbers after it, like maybe a mac address or something. So I selected this one and it worked.
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up in a different way what involved mac address. It didn't really help with the range extender and I just abandoned that. I have an ATT supplied modem/router and I've read that is the issue. I thought I put things back the way they were the though.

I also went to see if maybe the track point was working. At first it appeared not to. I couldn't even see a cursor. Then I saw one and it was off to the side and moving very slow. So I opened up the mouse/pointer settings and the settings for speed and sensitivity were very low. So I increased both and it is working as it should. So I wonder if maybe it was always this way and it just appeared not to be working to me.

I did run the same command as you as well and the output, except for one additional entry looks identical to yours:

~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Raydium Corporation Raydium Touch System id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Elan Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Elan TrackPoint id=13 [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 IR Camera: Integrate id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]