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4 Replies Last post: Dec 24, 2007 4:13 PM by magic-man
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no mouse scroll with vista host, xp guest, hp touchpad

Oct 17, 2007 5:30 PM

Click to view tgafford's profile Lurker tgafford 4 posts since
Oct 17, 2007
I have an HP pavilion DV2415us, which includes a mouse pad having a dedicated scrolling area, running Vista Home. Scrolling area on mouse works fine in Vista. I notice that if I scroll on the desktop, I get a small icon that looks like an elevator bar. Of course there is nothing to scroll on the desktop. If I scroll when a program has focus, the window simply and correctly scrolls. Guest is XP. On guest, regardless of whether Desktop or a program window has focus, the small 'elevator bar' icon appears, and scrolling does not take place. That makes me think the scrolling information is not being sent to the guest. There is no mouse management software on the XP installation, just the usual PS2 driver.
Tags: workstation, 6.0.0, mouse, xp, vista
Reply Re: no mouse scroll with vista host, xp guest, hp touchpad Dec 22, 2007 6:33 AM
Click to view rafraf's profile Lurker rafraf 1 posts since
Dec 22, 2007

I have the same problem: vista host dell touchpad (not that I think that matters). Can anyone explain why touchpad scrolling does not work in the guests?

I have tried a Windows XP and Ubuntu guest and neither respond to the scroll area.

Any further information would be appreciated.


Reply Re: no mouse scroll with vista host, xp guest, hp touchpad Dec 24, 2007 1:21 PM
Click to view LikwidN2's profile Lurker LikwidN2 1 posts since
Dec 24, 2007
I have an Alienware M9700, running Windows XP host and Ubuntu 7.10 guest. The touchpad is Synaptics branded. When I use the scrollbar, the elevator bar shows up, but you can tell it's showing up in the host operating system, just on top of the guest window. The scrollbar on most of these systems is completely software (driver) based. Uninstall the drivers for the touchpad, and you will see that the scrollbar becomes just part of the regular touchpad. In Linux, VMWare input devices are installed, not a Synaptics touchpad. This is probably the problem with all touchpads.
Reply Re: no mouse scroll with vista host, xp guest, hp touchpad Dec 24, 2007 1:38 PM
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Click to view ender`'s profile Novice ender` 45 posts since
Mar 2, 2007
The Synaptics touchpad by default doesn't emulate a true scroll wheel. You can make it do that by editing SynTPEnh.ini (it's located in it's installation directory). Adding this should make the scrollwheel functionality work as expected:


[VMWare]
WT = "VMWare Workstation*"
SF = 0x10000000
SF |= 0x00004000


(not tested, I don't have my laptop with me at the moment, and I don't normally use the touchpad; you have to log off and log on again before the changes take effect).

Reply Re: no mouse scroll with vista host, xp guest, hp touchpad Dec 24, 2007 4:13 PM
Click to view magic-man's profile Hot Shot magic-man 381 posts since
Dec 24, 2006
If your touch pad has the feature to emulate a true wheel mouse, then use that feature. My touch pad works with the default mouse drivers or with their enhancd driver. The mouse driver worked better in my VMs (from M$).
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