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Laptop Touchpad Scroll ...?

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  1. timber
    Member

    Hi,

    First and foremost, thanks for MacPup!
    It's one of three boots on my laptop and I love it. (Other two are Mint 8 and LM Xfce 7)

    I use a Sony Vaio VGN-FS920 laptop.
    I found how to activate the click from touchpad option and that works fine.
    Just wondered if there is a way to scroll using my touchpad.
    In other distros I can just scroll with the right side of my touchpad.

    Thanks for any hints or tricks that I can use so I don't always have to carry a mouse.

    timber

    Posted 7 months ago #

  2. runtt21
    Member

    you can look at menu / applications / setup / mouse/keyboard wizard but I dont think puppy supports that.I have never got it to work on my laptop.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  3. timber
    Member

    Thanks for the reply Runtt21!

    I found that I can just use the up and down arrows to achieve the same effect so it's no bid deal at all. Also found that if I have a usb mouse plugged in when installing MP, both my touchpad and the mouse will be available after install.

    I sure do like MP installed to the hard drive, it's one of my regular boots now ... I like it!
    Seems to have everything I need or a package available if not.

    Kudos to you and the MacPup devs for your great work!

    Thanx

    timber

    Posted 7 months ago #

  4. racepres
    Member

    Works for me w/ trackpad! Just tried it [MacPupFoxy 2.0] . make sure you are using xorg, as vesa don't have it. in "setup", mouse and keyboard, type of mouse!
    I actually recall using this feature on a trackpad of another lappy, but it is not here just now.
    HTH
    RP

    Posted 7 months ago #

  5. timber
    Member

    Hi Racepres,

    I can't get xorg to install. Doesn't seem to like my video card or monitor. (Sony Laptop with on-board 915 Intel video). Maybe I need to install a driver or edit xorg.conf. Time to do some more research I guess.
    Thanx for the info.

    timber

    Posted 7 months ago #

  6. runtt21
    Member

    xorg wont touch some of the newer intel cards, I run xvesa all the time.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  7. timber
    Member

    Hi Runtt21,

    Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one experiencing this.
    I even did a re-install to see if perhaps I messed things up somehow.

    Is there a possible work-around being considered in future releases?
    xvesa is fine but it does limit the options.

    timber

    Posted 7 months ago #

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