Touchpad Scrolling Doesn't Work

[Fusion Xavier]

I did some looking around the net and here on launchpad, but didn't find anything for my problem. Bug #791917 doesn't seem like the same thing either.

Basically, touchpad scrolling doesn't work on my laptop and when I enable edge or two-finger scrolling in settings - mouse - touchpad and exit out, it doesn't save. When I go back in it is set back to disabled.

I have tried using dconf-editor and manually editing org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.gschema.xml to make it stick, but that didn't work either.

I'm running eOS 0.2 Luna (fully patched) on a Dell Latitude E6530. I'd prefer two-finger scrolling, but would take edge over nothing. Any suggestions?

[Fusion Xavier (fusionx86)]

After a lot of research I found that this is a long standing and well known problem with Ubuntu. It may affect other distributions too, but my searching was focused on Ubuntu and its derivatives only.

The root of the problem appears to be that my touch pad is detected as a generic mouse instead of an Alps touch pad.

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]

I was able to get alps drivers installed using this: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download. After that I was able to get edge and two-finger scrolling to work. I wonder what issues I might have in the future with eOS after doing this though. It would be nice to have a supported method to get this working.

As a test I also installed Mint 15 (based on 13.04 of course) and found that it detected my touch pad correctly by default. I assume that this has finally be fixed in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04. Any chance that this could be patched into eOS 0.2? Not sure if that's asking too much. Thanks.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

OP, can you still reproduce this? It may have been fixed in Freya since we're using a newer hardware stack.

[Damian Woźniak (fisz)]

Have the same problem on HP Pavilion dv6750ew. When I enable two finger scrolling, and exit system settings - it doesn't save. I have Freya installed with all updates.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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