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    Touchpad scrolling doesn't work while in games...

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by sundraziw88, Oct 20, 2008.

  1. sundraziw88

    sundraziw88 Newbie

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    So I have a 6860 fx that I've been pretty happy about. The only problem is with the touchpad. When I use the virtual area for scrolling it works for the scroll bar on the side of windows. However, when I'm in a game, games don't seem to recognize my "virtual scroll bar". A little icon to the right of the mouse shows up and it fails to zoom in/zoom out or whatever the scrollbar's function is set to in any of my games.


    Anyone have a similar issue or a fix? Thanks so much!
     
    sundraziw88, Oct 20, 2008
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    Thebullfrog Notebook Enthusiast

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    It's the way the synaptics driver works. It does pretty much only work in windows, it even says so somewhere in the documentation that the scrolling doesn't work in a lot of other programs. I know in some the vertical scrolling works but not the horizontal (like in photoshop)
     
    Thebullfrog, Oct 25, 2008
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