Archive for the ‘Scroll’ tag

Sabayon: scrolling && compiz.

This is not a Sabayon related problem. Probably is happening no matter what distribution is used but I will try with an Ubuntu Live just to be sure.

While looking for tutorials, tips, tricks to setup the Wacom digitizer i have to scroll a lot and every time i have huge problems. Because of scrolling, the entire system is freezing for a few seconds. This happens almost every minute and is pissing me off, really.

Watching the system load with top, i saw the Firefox and X using 100% of the CPU. After searching with google and checking tons of bug reports Read the rest of this entry »

Sabayon: touchpad scroll and tap fix

Yesterday trying to fix different bugs i found another issue:
My touchpad didn’t work as expected. No “tap“, “doubletap” and no “scrolling“.

After checking blogs and forums trying to find a fix, doing a lot of changes in xorg.conf i decided to check the synaptics manual to find the correct options and values:

cmc@atlantis ~ $ man 4 synaptics

After a few hours of testing different things i came out with a small working tutorial.
Of course, if synaptics is already installed and X is already working, this tutorial should work on any Linux distro.

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