two-finger scrolling does not work on Asus EeePC 1201T

[Alex Wauck]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

According to reviews on Newegg, this notebook has two-finger scrolling under Windows. However, I cannot enable two-finger scrolling on Kubuntu 10.04. I have tried loading psmouse with different protocols, but none have had the desired effect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-1ubuntu4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-020635rc1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 9 16:18:57 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-020635rc1-generic

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

hi Alex,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu stable release(maverick ubuntu 10.10), this would help us a lot.

[Alex Wauck (awauck)]

This bug is still present in Ubuntu 10.10.

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

I have reported this bug as the duplicate of bug #554980. There's a workaround there in the bug. You can some necessary information in that bug from now on.

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi there,

You will happy to know that an experimental version of the 'multitouch protocol' based dkms package is released here in bug #308191 which is providing true multitouch support for people who have touchpads with true multitouch capabilities(like in some latest synaptics touchpad). So if that works for you unsubscribe here and continue there instead..

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Alex Wauck, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-synaptics REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Alex Wauck (awauck)]

I haven't used that machine in a while, but I don't recall it being a problem last time I did. I'll close this bug.