Thanks @anthonywong! I can confirm that after installing oem-touchpad- psmouse-1615937-dkms_1.0sutton1_all.deb package the middle button is detected in my E470 and Trackpad scrolling works now like any standard mouse wheel scroll.
I'm currently running 16.04.3 LTS (Neon 5.8 actually). Here's the xinput output after installing this DKMS package: Device 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint': Device Enabled (139): 1 Coordinate Transformation Matrix (141): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 Device Accel Profile (265): 0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration (266): 1.000000 Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (267): 1.000000 Device Accel Velocity Scaling (268): 10.000000 Device Product ID (259): 2, 10 Device Node (260): "/dev/input/event13" Evdev Axis Inversion (524): 0, 0 Evdev Axes Swap (526): 0 Axis Labels (527): "Rel X" (149), "Rel Y" (150) Button Labels (528): "Button Left" (142), "Button Middle" (143), "Button Right" (144), "Button Wheel Up" (145), "Button Wheel Down" (146), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (147), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (148) Evdev Scrolling Distance (529): 0, 0, 0 Evdev Middle Button Emulation (530): 1 Evdev Middle Button Timeout (531): 50 Evdev Middle Button Button (532): 2 Evdev Third Button Emulation (533): 0 Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (534): 1000 Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (535): 3 Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (536): 20 Evdev Wheel Emulation (537): 1 Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (538): 6, 7, 4, 5 Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (539): 10 Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (540): 200 Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (541): 2 Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (542): 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670492 Title: No TrackPoint scroll To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev-hwe-16.04/+bug/1670492/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs