toutchpad slidder went away in Feisty

[Patton Echols]

On 06/04/2007 05:41 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> in Dapper, the right side of my track pad used to work like a mouse wheel.  (I 
> think it is called the slider?) I am pretty sure it worked that way out of the 
> box at least I don't remember doing anything special .
>
> I just installed Feisty and now it doesn't .  anyone know what I can do to get 
> it back?
>
> Carl K
>
>   
I haven not tried this, but first a data point for you.  I have upgraded 
my laptop to fiesty and the slider works.  Mine is a Thinkpad R40.

Presumably there is some configuration missing.  I poked around a bit, 
and would suggest making sure that xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is 
installed.  It should be if your touchpad works otherwise.

There is a package "gsynaptics" that you could try.  It is a GUI 
interface that allows configuring the synaptics touchpad on the fly.  (I 
saw that there is another kind of touchpad too, don't know if those 
tools work with that or what you have . . .)

Maybe someone who really  knows will have a better idea ;-)