Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Toshiba PS/2 touchpad on 2.6.X not working along bottom and right sides | Date | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:03:43 -0500 |
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On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:07 am, Andrew Haninger wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:23:36 +0000 (UTC), Henning P. Schmiedehausen > <hps@intermeta.de> wrote: > > This might be a touchpad that simulates the scroll wheel on the right > > side and horizontal scrolling on the bottom. > > > > Does your touchpad emit mouse button events when touching on the > > right / bottom side? > > > > I have a Toshiba Satellite with another touchpad (a Synaptics) and > > this can be programmed to do so. I'd think that Toshiba noadays uses > > touchpads that have this hard-coded (maybe there is a command to turn > > this on/off). > I have a ThinkPad T42 that can do this, as well, and this is what I > thought when I first encountered this problem. However, I've had this > Gateway laptop since about 1999 and it hasn't done this since. Not in > 2.2 or 2.4. > > Also, like I said, xev produced no output when I touched and dragged > in the offending areas. > > If this really is an added feature and there's a way to turn it off, > that would be okay. Having it off by default would be best since it's > seemingly a changed behavior between one kernel version and another > (also, I hate that feature :) ). >
Yes, you can. Booting with psmouse.proto=bare will force the touchpad into standard PS/2 mode. You may also try booting with psmouse.proto=imps and psmouse.proto=exps - maybe one of these 2 will give you virtual scrolling.
If psmouse is compiled as a module you will have to add
options psmouse proto=bare
to your /etc/modprobe.conf
Btw, what device/protocol are you using in X? I'd advise setting it to "dev/input/mice" and "ExplorerPS/2" so if your touchad is indeed sending scroll events X would use them. Could you post your config, please?
Thanks!
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