(solved) Touchpad page scrolling

[uggla]

Hi!

Touchpad page scrolling won't work for neither of my two laptops. Is there a way to fix this besides installing Xorg and synaptics?

regards
/Uggla

[curaga]

Not really, under Xvesa it emulates a normal mouse, to use touchpad features you do need Xorg and the synaptics driver.

[tinypoodle]

Tapping (instead of left-clicking) does work however.

BTW, same applies in gpm.

[MikeLockmoore]

@uggla: The following boot option (added during the boot process in GRUB or placed in the file that defines the boot options in GRUB) works well in my eeePC.  I don't know if it will help your laptops.

psmouse.proto=imps

[uggla]

@uggla: The following boot option (added during the boot process in GRUB or placed in the file that defines the boot options in GRUB) works well in my eeePC.  I don't know if it will help your laptops.

psmouse.proto=imps

Thanks! It works great! 

/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

@ MikeLockmoore & uggla

Could you please specify what exactly does work in addition with "psmouse.proto=imps" which wouldn't work without?
Thanks.

[uggla]

@ MikeLockmoore & uggla

Could you please specify what exactly does work in addition with "psmouse.proto=imps" which wouldn't work without?
Thanks.

Without:
Dragging the finger along the right side of the touchpad moves the cursor.

With:
Dragging the finger along the right side of the touchpad doesn't move the cursor but scrolls the page.

/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

I do not note any difference, with or without "psmouse.proto=imps", tapping works in either case, scrolling in neither

(PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad)

@ MikeLockmoore & uggla:
Do you perhaps refer to Xorg?
I only tried with Xvesa and gpm

[uggla]

No, I wasn't referring to Xorg but Xvesa. The psmouse.proto=imps boot option only worked on one of my two laptops. The one for which it works has an Elantech touchpad which, I think, also is the case with MikeLockmoores eeePC.

/Uggla