Touchpad, no vertical scrolling

[petersoncekemp]

Hi there,

I'm using Gentoo in an Acer notebook. I've been using "mouse" driver in xorg.conf and my vertical scroll doesn't work (it used to in Ubuntu, few months ago, so I know I can do it). I've installed the proper synaptics driver, and although I can use it as much as I could before, I am not able to vertical scroll yet...

My xorg.conf revelant lines:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "mouse1"
#"CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIXGL" "true"
EndSection

(I commented out CorePointer. With him startx wouldn't start)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "Synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "RightEdge" "700"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "on"
EndSection

(I had no idea what values to use on RightEdge or VertScrollDelta so I tried some random values. I also tried 5400 on RightEdge once but... Nothing right.)

Any ideas? Thanks!

[petersoncekemp]

Done!

I used Ubuntu Live CD (in which touchpad worked) and copied livecd's xorg.conf touchpad lines, which are like this right now:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
EndSection

[Chris H]

Before xorg.conf became auto generated I always added

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

to get the scroll working.

Give it a go as well as the "auto-dev" that Peter has posted.