Touchpad Scrolling (was Re: distro for compaq laptop?)

Josh Coffman wrote:
>
> I have Fedora Core 4 running nicely on an HP Pavilion
> z5000 (same as the r3000). I have the ALPS touchpad
> with scroll working after a little tweaking. You'll
> need to install synaptics drivers and edit your x
> config. (oh and I also use an usb mouse with no probs
> switching between the two.)
>
> When researching how to get the scroll working, I read
> articles from people getting it to work on Debian
> Sarge, Ubuntu, and Slackware also.
>
> I seem to recall a couple distros had the touchpad(w/o
> scroll) working out-of-the box: Mepis, Suse, and
> Mandriva. (I tried a few before settling on Fedora.)
>
> Most likely you will have to tweak a little if you
> want the scroll working for any distro.
>
> -j
>
I started looking into getting the scrolling working on my touchpad and
never finished. I figured that X would need tweaking, but hadn't gotten
to any info on synaptics drivers. Do you have any details you'd like to
share? TIA

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  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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