Synaptics side scroll is disable by default on Dell Inspiron6400

Thank you for your bug report. Please attach Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf.

Jerome

HorizScrollDelta has been set by default to 0, i.e. disabled, by the ubuntu installer, on my laptop too.

There's no need to attach conffile and log. Instead, a configuration in the preferences menu or the system administration menu should be provided to enable the horizontal scroll or it should be enabled by default. Also circular scrolling does not harm and is very useful, and should be enabled by default in my opinion, why are both these options disabled?

Jerome, presumably you need the logs to fix this?

Confirming that removing that HorizScrollDelta line fixes the problem.

To the original reporter, why did you report this bug if you refused to do as asked, to help debug it?

On 2/27/07, Sarah Hobbs <email address hidden> wrote:
> Jerome, presumably you need the logs to fix this?
>
> Confirming that removing that HorizScrollDelta line fixes the problem.
>
> To the original reporter, why did you report this bug if you refused to
> do as asked, to help debug it?

Please, don't make this kind of assumption.

I didn't *refuse* to help debug it. Did you see any post where I say:

"""No, no, no. I refuse to do it!""" ?

[...]

The problem being: I got too busy to keep up with most activities I
had, and that included some 800 different things in my life, and
*surprise*, *surprise* it also included the bugs I had submitted to
Ubuntu.

I probably deleted the original request for details due to being in a
hurry, and later forgot about it.

If anything, why did I report a bug, if I at the time *didn't* *know*
*for* *sure* that I would be able to give more information about?

Because I thought/think that that still helps Ubuntu.

[...]

I have to say that:

1. I honestly have been looking forward to be more active at Ubuntu again.
2. Having some random person coming from the Ubuntu community casting
personal judgments, and assumptions about me makes me less so.

This is as much as I am able to write without being impolite so I'll stop here.

--
Francisco

Sarah: the comment about no necessity to send the log is mine. I usually report bugs and provide info, but in this case the only info you can get from the X server log is that horizscroll is disabled in Xorg.conf. There is nothing the X server can do about that, because it is dexconf that disables HorizScroll and the server has to respect the options in Xorg.conf. My reply is excessive, I admit it, but the request of attaching log and config seemed to me, at the time, a "stock reply", which indicated that the reporter had wasted his time reporting the bug, and the developer had not read it.

In any case, from what I have read around, HorizScroll is disabled because it is considered bad usability to have the horizontal scroll, and instead programs should not have horizontal scrolls if not absolutely needed. At the time of the report I didn't agree at all, however after having got used to that I understand why it is so.

This is not the case for circular scrolling, which should just be enabled in config by default - but - correct me if I am wrong, this is the case in feisty.

the issue has been fixed by the following upload:

xorg (1:7.2-0ubuntu4) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/x11-common.config.in:
     - fix validate_nice_value() not to fail when using adept
       (Closes: LP #68267)
   * debian/local/dexconf:
     - don't set HorizScrollDelta for synaptics so that horizontal scrolling
       works. (Closes: LP #40021)