Laptops :: touchpad scroll

I've successfully frugalled my new Compaq Presario V4221, got the widescreen res sorted out, wireless connected through ndiswrapper (using bcmwl5.inf), all good, but the scroll feature of the touchpad doesn't work - any thoughts?

The touchpad must be set as a PS/2 mouse to get it to work.

The scrolls aren't a physically different part of the pad, just the side and bottom, so I'm guessing scroll is software-controlled under windoze?

Not a major issue, but would be nice to get it to work.

PS. Did anyone ever figure out how to get the windoze key recognised under DSL, eg to hotkey Windoze-E to launch emelfm?

Rogue, this is my completely uneducated guess, I have never had a touchpad,
but while trying to set up an old lappy with a Neomagic card, I bumbled across
an xf86config file with some synaptic touchpad stuff in it. I used that file
for acceleration, with the touchpad stuff commented out.
So maybe you can google for a config file that really suits what you have.

eg,

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
#Section "InputDevice"
#Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
#Driver "synaptics"
#Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
#Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
#Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
#EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NeoMagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV]"
Driver "neomagic"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

and later-

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
#InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

You get the idea...
Hope this gives a direction at least.

original here.