Remapping Synaptics Touchpad

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:22:03AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 01:36:59 +0100
> Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb  5, 2010 at 00:28:07 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't use HAL but udev. How can I configure it there? Btw., thats
> > > 1.7.
> > > 
> > Get rid of /lib/udev/rules.d/*synaptics.rules (can't remember the
> > number right now), or override it from /etc/udev/rules.d/.  (It's
> > actually 1.7
> > + an old version of the udev stuff on top.)
> 
> Thanks, got it now. But it doesn't work. I've set `Wheel Emulation
> Button' to 0, but that doesn't change anything. The touchpad still only
> moves the pointer. Also setting it to 1, 2 or 3 and pressing the
> respective button doesn't scroll. It works with the trackpoint, though.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?

sounds like there's a bug with wheel emulation on absolute axes. Do you have
the commit below in your tree?

commit d6beb16be26df65cd65eaeb146fde0d355521535
Refs: xf86-input-evdev-2.3.0-17-gd6beb16
Author:     Dima Kogan <dkogan at cds.caltech.edu>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 5 02:05:19 2009 -0800

    allow wheel emulation to work with absolute-position devices


Cheers,
  Peter