[ale] Laptop Scroll Pad

hbbs at comcast.net hbbs at comcast.net
Thu Apr 1 11:52:56 EST 2004


That line is already there, as is

Option "Buttons" "5"

- Jeff
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > I have an eMachines M6805 laptop - one of the new AMD64 ones.  It's running 
> 64-bit Gentoo and it has a touchpad with a vertical scroll pad to the right of 
> it.
> >
> > If I boot this laptop to a Knoppix CD, tapping the touch pad once or twice 
> works like mouse clicks and the scroll pad works as one would expect.  Booted to 
> Gentoo, none of these features work.  The scroll pad just makes the cursor track 
> up and down.
> >
> > I've tried splicing parts of the Knoppix XF86Config into Gentoo's (I thought 
> that SendCoreEvents might have something to do with it) to no avail.  Also, 
> Knoppix boots a 2.4 kernel whereas Gentoo boots a 2.6 kernel and I can't find 
> anything in this particular 2.6 menuconfig that looks like it might enable these 
> features.
> >
> > Any generalities I might be missing?
> 
>     Option      "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
> 
> in the appriate "InputDevice" section.
> 
> 	bjorn
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