318067 - Trackpoint slide control up or down does not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Najamul Arfeen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

In all versions of Firefox, sliding to scroll text up or down does not work.  Here is the details on hardware and drivers

PC:            HP DV1000 varient customized (trackpoint standard)
OS:            Win XP Professional SP2
Trackpoint:    Synaptics
Driver version:7.12.7.0 (latest, 11/4/2004)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  HP dv1000 varient laptop
2.  Firefox
3.  Any webpage that has enough length so the slide up or down could be tested.
4.  Slide finger on trackpoint up/down area (extreme right)
Actual Results:  
The web page does not scroll up or down using the slide area

Expected Results:  
The web page should scroll up or down within page length when using the slider area on synaptic touchpoint.

Recognized that the use is sliding for up/down control on the page and scrolled the page accordingly

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

According to http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm the latest version is 8.1.2. Could you try with that and see if it still occurs?

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 281346 comment 6 -> Core bug 20618?

Comment 3

[Najamul Arfeen]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Duplicate of bug 281346 comment 6 -> Core bug 20618?
> 

Thanks, the synaptics driver version 8.1.2 works perfect.  Guess I relied on HP support site for latest drivers.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Thanks, the synaptics driver version 8.1.2 works perfect.  Guess I relied on HP
> support site for latest drivers.

Yay. Marking INVALID since this bug wasn't in Firefox.