Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
>
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West
> <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> > just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
> > respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need*
> > them anymore.
>
> I tried that, no joy. I tried copying in the "Synaptics" device, just
> like in the previous xorg.conf, and also as settings inside
> the "configured mouse". Neither made any difference.
>
> I also discovered that while KDE will let me change the magnitude of
> the scroll events, it will not allow me to turn them off. I cannot
> set "scroll" to "0", only "1" or more.
>
> On Thursday 21 August 2008,
> "Felipe Gallois" <felipe@gallois.com.br> was heard to say:
> > it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in
> > laptops anymore
>
> Yet this is what is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
> to /dev/input/event8
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
> (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
> (type: MOUSE)
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
> to /dev/input/event8
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
>
> so it seems that it is in fact getting loaded. The old configuration
> is just being ignored.
>
Have you set up the "ServerLayout" Section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
I'm not shure if it will help, but I think, as I configured some other
things with the touchpad, it just worked after doing this.
With the best greetings
Richard
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