On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Arthur Titeica <arthur@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> >> 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? I was hit by this "bug" during -rc phase, I just exchanged some few emails with the kernel input maintainer (Dmitry Torokhov) who kindly helped me to solve that.
