scroll wheel broken in Jaunty

[Michael Below]

Binary package hint: xfree86-driver-synaptics

I have an old Sony Vaio PCG-VX71P:

bios-version:R0221U2
system-manufacturer:Sony Corporation
system-product-name:PCG-VX71P(DE)
system-version:01

It has a touchpad, with buttons and a scroll wheel below, recognized as Alps Glidepoint PS/2. The scroll wheel did work in 8.10 and before, for scrolling and clicking like a middle mouse button, since the update to 9.04 yesterday it doesn't work anymore. Tapping on the toupad to click the left mouse button works, and scrolling by moving the finger on the rightmost side of the touchpad works as well.

Besides the scroll wheel there is a "back" button, which has never worked in linux, now it is possible to use it to go back one page in the web browser -- fine so far, but I'd rather have the scroll wheel back :)

I guess you will get all the information collected by ubuntu-bug, so I will include only /proc/bus/input/devices as mentioned in the DebuggingTouchpadDetection wiki, because I'm not sure it was included. I think it's interesting that there is a "Jog Dial" recognized besides the scroll wheel, there is only one dial/wheel on the computer -- probably Sony calls it a jog dial, but its placed with the touchpad and should/did work like a scroll wheel on modern mice. At the same time I'm wondering why there are two more mice found (Mac and PS/2).

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event0
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=104d Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Sony Vaio Keys"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:0b/SNY6001:00/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=13
B: KEY=1f 160f0000 c 0 100000 0 2 0 600b 102400 0 40300400 e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=104d Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Sony Vaio Jogdial"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
B: EV=7
B: KEY=40000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=100

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:02/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event7
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3f000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event8
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse3 event9
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.99.3-2ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-12-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xfree86-driver-synaptics
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic i686

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub [8086:1130] (rev 11)
     Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:8111]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) [8086:1132] (rev 11)
     Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:8111]

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for reporting bug and helping us to make ubuntu, even better. Unfortunately, the information you liked with the bug report is not sufficient for us to probe into the bug. For developers to work on this bug we want to have additional information from you, regarding the bug.

As Jaunty is pretty old version now, we recommend you to shift to latest maverick to get proper support.
  Is the still present in latest meverick.

Consider referring this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection for any help.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.