touchpad scroll

Forum: Laptops
Topic: touchpad scroll
started by: RoGuE_StreaK

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Jan. 07 2006,00:00

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?

Posted by adraker on Jan. 07 2006,02:23

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.