[Solved] touchpad vertical scrolling

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[Solved] touchpad vertical scrolling

Post#1 by fanthom » 31 Dec 2010, 05:31

I have tried many configurations by adjusting /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptic.conf,
trying different x11-input-synaptics drivers and still no joy :bad:

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Re: touchpad vertical scrolling

Post#2 by Ahau » 10 Jan 2011, 19:48

Here are some relevant threads that I've found:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... nt-849714/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... op-675065/

The problem appears to be that your system is recognizing your touchpad as a standard mouse, rather than a SynPS/2 device (or it recognizes it as SynPS/2 and then changes it to standard mouse).

Check this with cat /proc/bus/input/devices. My system came up with a standard mouse.

Temporary work around:

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rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=auto
Apparently you can add those lines to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local (see first thread), though I haven't tested it. There's more info in those threads, and this does not appear to be the only way to fix it.

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Re: touchpad vertical scrolling

Post#3 by fanthom » 10 Jan 2011, 19:56

you can also edit /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf and change:
'options psmouse proto=imps'
to
'options psmouse proto=auto'

should do the job :)

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