On 04/06/18 13:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/06/2018 09:37 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> On 04/05/2018 10:54 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: >>> I just recently upgraded the F25 on this laptop (Dell Inspiron >>> 1520) to >>> F26. It mostly went well, except that I seem to have lost the ability >>> to use the vertical scrolling part of my touchpad. I'm running the MATE >>> desktop, so the first thing I did was to check the mouse configuration >>> in System->Preferences->Mouse. In the touchpad tab, I see that Vertical >>> Edge Scrolling is indeed checked, and un-checking it and re-checking it >>> does not bring the functionality back. I can use two-fingered vertical >>> scrolling (it also is checked), but I am not an expert, and it seems to >>> have the side effect of backing up if I move my second finger down into >>> the horizontal scroll area of the touchpad when trying to do a large >>> vertical scroll. >> >> Fedora switched from using the synaptics touchpad driver to libinput(?) >> by default. Unfortunately, the libinput driver doesn't appear to have >> all the features that the synaptics driver does. >> >> At least in Fedora 27, you can uninstall the xorg-x11-drv-libinput >> package and install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy. I'm not sure how >> long this will last. > > I'm using libinput (/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so) on a > Dell Inspiron N7110 laptop running F27 and vertical scroll works just > peachy for me using two fingers on the touchpad. I see these entries in > the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file: > > [ 109.192] (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Applying InputClass > "libinput touchpad catchall" > [ 109.192] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS > GlidePoint' Yes, it works for me too, but it is awkward to use. I just replaced xorg-x11-drv-libinput with xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy on my F26 system, and all is well with the world again (at least until I upgrade to F27 later this summer). > YMMV (your mileage may vary) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Kevin J. Cummings cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kjchome@xxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
