touchpad two fingers scroll?

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witek
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touchpad two fingers scroll?

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Can anyboddy advise howto enable two fingers scroll on the touchpad? Other distros enable it by default so I can scroll long pages with two fingers.
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Re: touchpad two fingers scroll?

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It works for me by default. Run

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synclient
and see what value VertTwoFingerScroll has. You can change it with synclient two. Use --help to see how it works. You'll probably need to run it every time you log in. There should be a way to do it with a xorg.conf.d file, but I'm not bothering with it.
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I got

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Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
Maybe because I`m using ATI driver downloaded from AMD website?
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Re: touchpad two fingers scroll?

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Are you using a xorg.conf that has disabled the touchpad driver?
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Probably as there no entires regarding tochpad or synaptics, etc. Any idea how to add them?
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cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
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I tried to make it work but failed :( I have to do without scrolling somehow.
EDIT: the touchpad is mistakenly recognized by the kernel as PS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse and that is why it doesn`t work as expected.
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Could be relative to some BIOS option. See if there is an option in the BIOS telling to fake the touchpad as a ps2 mouse. I've already seen that before. Do not know if that apply to your case.
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