[gentoo-user] Re: scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad
Thanks for your suggestion, I tried both the mev (with gpm) and xev (with X) programs but I don't see no event at all for the upper scroll button on my touchpad. I also forgot to mention that IMPS/2 does not work for me because when I try that and move the pointer to the right half of the screen the arrow is always returning to the bottom left corner and click events are triggered in a random-looking way making the mouse impossible to use. I guess this all means that the only use I can do of my touchpad is as a three button mouse... too bad! ciao ste Oggetto: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad Da: Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:35:37 -0600 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:45, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: Thanks for your answer, I had already tried that, would have been easy but unfortunately it doesn't work for me.. ciao ste Oggetto: Re: [gentoo-user] scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad Da: Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:33:56 -0600 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:09, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: Hello, I have been googling quite a bit but I haven't found a way to enable the two additional buttons, the ones usually used for scrolling, like a mousewheel replacement, on my Acer Aspire 1312LC touchpad. After a few tries I fell back to a traditional XFree configuration, setting the protocol to PS/2 and keeping the ZAxisMapping line commented so at least the lower button works as a traditional copy-and-paste third mouse button, but to use both for scrolling would really help. I tried emerging and using tpconfig but it says it cannot find any synaptics device on my machine... Any help really appreciated, thanks ciao ste Use IMPS/2 for the protocol and add back in ZAxisMapping "4 5" just like you would for a normal mouse and it should work. At least it does on my HP laptop :) Robert Morris My only other suggestion would be to try the xev program to see what button number XFree sees those buttons as. You may need to change the number of mouse buttons in your XF86Config in order to detect them. I know my Intellimouse was like that, if I set it for 7 buttons (to use the side buttons) my scroll wheel would disappear. The scroll wheel would only work if I set it to 5 buttons. Robert Morris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:45, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: > Thanks for your answer, I had already tried that, would have been easy but > unfortunately it doesn't work for me.. > > ciao > ste > > > Oggetto: > > Re: [gentoo-user] scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad > > Da: > > Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Data: > > Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:33:56 -0600 > > A: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:09, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: > > > >>Hello, I have been googling quite a bit but I haven't found a way to enable the > >>two additional buttons, the ones usually used for scrolling, like a mousewheel > >>replacement, on my Acer Aspire 1312LC touchpad. After a few tries I fell back to a > >>traditional XFree configuration, setting the protocol to PS/2 and keeping the > >>ZAxisMapping line commented so at least the lower button works as a traditional > >>copy-and-paste third mouse button, but to use both for scrolling would really > >>help. I tried emerging and using tpconfig but it says it cannot find any synaptics > >>device on my machine... > >> > >>Any help really appreciated, thanks ciao > >>ste > >> > > > > Use IMPS/2 for the protocol and add back in ZAxisMapping "4 5" just like > > you would for a normal mouse and it should work. > > At least it does on my HP laptop :) > > > > Robert Morris > > My only other suggestion would be to try the xev program to see what button number XFree sees those buttons as. You may need to change the number of mouse buttons in your XF86Config in order to detect them. I know my Intellimouse was like that, if I set it for 7 buttons (to use the side buttons) my scroll wheel would disappear. The scroll wheel would only work if I set it to 5 buttons. Robert Morris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad
Thanks for your answer, I had already tried that, would have been easy but unfortunately it doesn't work for me.. ciao ste Oggetto: Re: [gentoo-user] scroll buttons on Acer laptop touchpad Da: Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:33:56 -0600 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:09, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: Hello, I have been googling quite a bit but I haven't found a way to enable the two additional buttons, the ones usually used for scrolling, like a mousewheel replacement, on my Acer Aspire 1312LC touchpad. After a few tries I fell back to a traditional XFree configuration, setting the protocol to PS/2 and keeping the ZAxisMapping line commented so at least the lower button works as a traditional copy-and-paste third mouse button, but to use both for scrolling would really help. I tried emerging and using tpconfig but it says it cannot find any synaptics device on my machine... Any help really appreciated, thanks ciao ste -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Use IMPS/2 for the protocol and add back in ZAxisMapping "4 5" just like you would for a normal mouse and it should work. At least it does on my HP laptop :) Robert Morris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list