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Old 03-19-2005, 08:35 AM   #1
Ephracis
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Problems with buttons on touchpad


I have a synaptics touchpad (i think, does anyone know?) that comes with the laptop Acer Aspire 1362LC. The touchpad has two buttons and then a sort of a scroll (four directions-button).

So there should be 6 buttons. But I have only 3 buttons. I have button1 as the normal, button2 as rightclick and then the middle button (4-direction) is:
up: button1
down: button3
left and right: button2

I would like to have up and down as two seperate buttons (4 and 5) so I can use it as scroll. Does anyone have any experience with this or at least a clue on how to do this?
 
Old 03-21-2005, 03:30 AM   #2
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hi there,

i think you need to give this info to your xorg.conf file.
in the synaptics mouse section you can insert something like
Code:
Option "Buttons" "6"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "5 6"
from my head now. take a look around here. there is somewhere the correct syntax.

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