I've been unable to use scroll for a long time on Ubuntu. I would really like to add this feature, but it is proving to be a much more complicated process that what I thought it should be. I've followed instructions at <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/132627">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/132627</a> and <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#shmconfig">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#shmconfig</a> I added the ability to use the vertical scroll on my touchpad, but still, having trouble. When I scroll down it works, but scrolling up gives trouble (it jumps to the very very bottom of the page). I tried to add the program TouchPad from USC, but it fails to initilize with an error report like this: GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics I went through trying to fix that, but I couldn't get it done. I really don't know where to go. I do think I found something significant though: the command "xinput list" gives this: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=14 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ CNF7017 id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] If you look, you can see that it is NOT detecting a synaptics touchpad.