[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1
Arthur Titeica
arthur at psw.ro
Tue Mar 22 04:15:47 EDT 2011
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:50:42 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 01:35 AM, Arthur Titeica wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:24:26 +0700, Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Marek Otahal
<markotahal at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Monday 21 of March 2011 22:21:44 you wrote:
> >>>> On Monday 21 of March 2011 22:09:22 Erik Johnson wrote:
> >>>> > Touchpad scrolling stopped working for me with this kernel,
for
> >>>>
> >>>> some odd
> >>>>
> >>>> > reason.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> i had just the same weird issue,
> >>>> for me, going to kde's systemsettings > mouse module fixes
that.
> >>>> see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23330
> >>>> cheers, marek
> >>>
> >>> sorry, my mistake. so i can confirm that kernel 2.6.38 breaks
the
> >>> sidebar
> >>> scrolling on synaptics touchpad.
> >>
> >> that's because there's some new multitouch code that has been
merged,
> >> you should be able to scroll with two fingers anywhere on the
touchpad
> >> now, this became the default behaviour. To get back the old style,
> >> just add:
> >> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
> >> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf (or whatever it is called
on
> >> your machine)
> >
> > I'm just curious. Where did you get this info from and how could a
normal
> > user know these things when they break? Maybe it's in a wiki
somewhere or
> > there's a arch kernel changelog?
> >
> > As for myself I spent one day looking for a solution and found it in
> > ksynaptics (in AUR - this should really get in official repos ;) ).
>
> "man synaptics" gives you all the options.
Will have to look into it someday. Maybe there's something about
dragging locks.
> Also, there is no ksynaptics.
Sorry about that. It's kcm_touchpad.
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Arthur Titeica
PharmEc Software
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