Peter Hutterer wrote: > yes and no. Depending on whether your touchpad can detect multi-finger > gestures, the driver enables either edge scrolling or two-finger scrolling. > On your touchpad two-finger scrolling should be enabled.
Oh neat. I have two fingered scrolling ;) > Now there's two other factors that may influence the behaviour as well: > some touchpads report ranges beyond what they can report (e.g. 1500 if the max > you can actually reach is 1200). In this case the edge settings are out and > you need to manually adjust them to get edge scrolling working again. > > the other problem is a bug in the synaptics kernel driver. Currently, all > touchpads announce multi-finger capabilities, even if they don't have them. > see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/376 for a patch. > So if twofinger scrolling doesn't work for you, then you're (like me) affected > by the kernel bug and need to manually override it in your xorg.conf/fdi. Or > just patch the kernel and provide testing feedback :) Cool, thanks for the info. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
