touchpad scrolling gone in hardy

[linuxer101]

i cannot scroll using the right side of my touchpad of my laptop in hardy.
this was automatic in feisty and gutsy. i also did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and there is no 3 mouse button emulation. i would like to report this. and i hope the team fixes this.

this is on a compaq evo n410c laptop

[Matteo Collina (matteo-collina)]

Is your touchpad a synaptic one? If it's the case there is a wrong configuration in your xorg.conf file. Try replacing that with this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

[linuxer101 (register4eva)]

yes its a synaptic touchpad. and i copy pasted that and it doesnt do a thing. something deeper is going on here. looks like some type of hardware/driver detection issue. feisty and gutsy detected my touchpad fine though. as a matter of fact my xorg.conf file is pretty plain. and even if i try paste stuff that was configured from other distros for my laptop it doesnt do a thing. something deeper is going on here.

[linuxer101 (register4eva)]

this wasnt a problem in gutsy or hardy

[linuxer101 (register4eva)]

i mean this wasnt a problem in feisty or gutsy************************

[Matteo Collina (matteo-collina)]

You should also have a section in the xorg.conf file that looks like this:
Section "ServerLayout"

 # Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
 # InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
 # InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
 # InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
    Identifier "Default Layout"
    Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" #the important line is obviously this one, add it to yours ServerLayout section if it's missing.
EndSection

Try issuing this command to see if the synaptics xorg module is loaded:
matteo@matteo-laptop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep synaptics
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

If it's loaded, try to install the gsynaptics package which provides an utility to configure the touchpad under system->preferences. Then try to enable the scrolling

Did you installed Hardy or you upgraded it from gutsy?

[linuxer101 (register4eva)]

i did a fresh install of hardy. this bug seems to be on regression here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/xorg/+bug/173411