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TwoFingerScroll doesn't work on my EeePC 1201T

Hi there.

Before I installed Slackware on my Asus EeePC 1201T I had to deal with it's pre-installed Windows 7. However, I had TwoFingerScroll with it and now I cannot use it with Linux. EdgeScroll works but I don't really like it, so I disabled it.

Here's my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">

  <device>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">

        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" tyle="string">60</merge>

    <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>

    </match>

  </device>

</deviceinfo>

Code:

$ synclient -l

shows that VertTwoFingerScroll is really enabled but it doesn't work.

Any idea? Probably a driver issue?

Thanks

What version of the x server and synaptics driver are you using? You shouldn't need HAL anymore. Are you using Gnome, I've found that it's settings sometimes mess up Xorg's settings.

The version of my X server is 1.7.7 and Synaptics is version 1.2.2. I am using Xfce (4.6.1) as DE.
I don't like using fdi files but it seems to be the only way to work. I'm wondering that I could disable EdgeScrolling trough the fdi policy but I couldn't enable TwoFingerScroll. :-/

This is not an answer to your question, but Xorg 1.8 and above doesn't need HAL, it probably makes these types of issues a lot easier to resolve.

Other than that, I've seen lots of hardware setup articles for specific models of EEEs on specific distributions. I'm sure there's something for 1201T and Slackware.

Although, if you check out the top right corner here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_1201T ..... =(

Quote:

There is a typo here. Try changing 'tyle' to 'type'.

Doesn't work either... :-/

I don't exactly know what I did (or what not) but somehow, scrolling now works. o.o