No Scroll function from Touchpad

[bilijoe]

I'm guessing that you have executed the command

echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe

which outputs "options psmouse proto=exps" in psmouse.modprobe.
I'm not 100% on what this does, but I'm guessing it tells the kernel that you are using an intellimouse explorer.
I had a similar problem. The solution was simply to enter an editor with sudo, open the file and remove the line.

I tried a couple of similar moves, but hadn't seen this one. I'll check it out later tonight. It'd be great if tis works [for me], but I'd still like to find a real FIX. This looks like more of a work-around, but we'll have to see.

Thanks for the feedback, BTW. Seems like most people are shying away from this subject like it was a Windows(c) issue, or something. I'll post here after I've tried this, so you'll [all?] know what I found.

[concomitantelegy]

Seth Forshee has written a psmouse-alps-dkms package, v. 0.10, addressing the bug on Launchpad, "Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work." Users of various laptops using the Alps touchpad report success in 11.04 and 11.10. Could you try it and report back?