I forgot to mention im using an aspire one zg5,heres the dmesg output about it: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xa40000
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Sean Budd <seanmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21001 > heres the bugzilla for this issue.As i mentioned,the latest patch has at > least fixed the scroll from 'disappearing',although the scroll area on the > pad seems too small still.I had noticed that the scroll(before the > patch)would work for a while then stop,and after i checked it more > thoroughly,it seemed that the right edge had moved off to the right making > it impossible to scroll(unless i was extremely careful at the very edge,then > occasionally it would scroll a bit).this fixed that,but i still wonder what > happened since the older,working driver and the newer broken one.I recall > there being a intended switch away from using shared memory config for > settings options,something there?they describe it well at that link. > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Li, Yan <yan.i...@intel.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for finding this problem. But I can't reproduce it on my MSI >> Wind netbook. I'm using Debian sid on a Lenovo T61 laptop too but I >> can't reproduce it here either. What kinds of machines are you using? >> >> Or could you please point me to the patch (in Jaunty or upstream)? >> >> Thank you. >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:10:07AM +0800, Sean Budd wrote: >> > The synaptic touchpad driver has an issue where the vertical scroll will >> > only work for a short time after first booting,and then stop working.I >> > believe this bug popped up after they changed the driver to not use >> > shmconfig,as I had the same problem with the driver in debian >> sid,whereas >> > the debian lenny driver,which still uses shmconfig,works fine.A patch >> for >> > this problem was issued in ubuntu jaunty and i would imagine it will >> would >> > be trivial to get this in moblin as well.In Debian sid a workaround is >> to >> > pull down the latest git code for the synaptic driver,as they have >> issued a >> > few patches that help this issue,although its not quite perfect yet as i >> can >> > tell,it does make the scrolling usable again.Let me know if this will be >> > entering moblin soon(i suppose i could also use the git code on moblin >> as >> > well,but ill wait and see what happens) >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Li, Yan >> >> Moblin Team, Opensource Technology Center, SSG, Intel >> Office tel.: +86-10-82171695 (inet: 8-758-1695) >> OpenPGP key: 5C6C31EF >> IRC: yanli on network irc.freenode.net >> > > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
