Scrolling on touchpad doesn't work on Fedora 11

[nite_man]

Hi,

After upgrading from Fedora 10 to 11 the scrolling on touchpad of the Compaq 6710b doesn't work. I saw a few posts about activating touchpad in the KDE control panel but I couldn't find any touchpad related tab.

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA

[Dangermouse]

Hi,
in f11 the touchpad is disbled by default i think!, anyway not sure about kde, but in gnome there is a gui for enabling it, system>preferences>mouse, id assume kde has similar.

[David Batson]

Try Qsynaptics for KDE. For Gnome, Gsynaptics should work. I use Qsynaptics with Mandriva 2009.1 KDE and Gsynaptics with F11 Gnome. I only use the TrackPoint though. I use these apps to disable the Touchpad.

[nite_man]

Thanks for your replays, guys. I tried to use ksynaptics but it needs driver version 0.14.4 and the system has 0.14.6c. Touchpad works fine under GNOME and there is a tab with touchpad setting in the system configuration. But I cannot find anything similar for KDE.

[David Batson]

Instead of Ksynaptics, try Qsynaptics.

[ultra magnus]

try using two fingers to scroll, this is what I have to do. To enable tapping see http://satyajitranjeev.wordpress.com...-in-fedora-11/ :

copy
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy

and edit the file according to your needs.

<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge>

Add the above lines if they are not present. This will enable tapping, two-finger tap for right click and three for middle click.

[nite_man]

It seems for Fedora the Qsynaptics package is called Ksynaptics. At least I saw it in the package definition - http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fed...fc10.i386.html

[Citizen Erased]

Ksynaptics doesn't seem to be in the f11 repo.
I have both Gnome and KDE installed so not sure if a KDE-only install will include the gnome mouse gui but I put this in my ~/.kde/Autostart folder and scroll works fine once it runs

#/bin/bash
############~Mouse scroll fix~##########
gnome-mouse-properties &
sleep 3
kill $(pidof gnome-mouse-properties)

exit

Once the I run the Gnome mouse gui the touchpad scroll works fine on KDE for me

[nite_man]

Hi Citizen Erased. Your approach works for me. Thanks a lot. Just have reversed scrolling by some reason.

[Citizen Erased]

In the KDE system settings, click on "Keyboard & Mouse"
In the mouse sub-menu there should be an option to reverse scroll direction, checking or unchecking that may solve problem

[nite_man]

Thanks a lot, guys, for your help. The gnome-mouse-properties works fine under KDE but it's strange a bit for me that KDE doesn't have any its settings for the touchpad control.

[nite_man]

Well, Finally I found howto scroll using touchpad. It's done as in Mac OS X touching by two fingers It works fine and it's much better then using scrolling bar on the touchpad.

[amir1990]

i have this problem too. i mean my touchpad dont work in KDE
but i found that whit using 10-synaptics fdi file i can solve it
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy
i typed it in bash but i got permission denied
can you help me