multiple mice in 2.6 kernels

[zfc-tinkerer]

I have a 2.6 kernel running on my laptop (fresh install, so no remainder of 2.4 or configs from 2.4 left around), and have everything but the winmodem and pcmcia working (don't need either, so I haven't tried). I would like to get fancy features of both the touchpad and usb mouse working. I set up x to use the default mouse in the config program (/dev/mouse, I think), and both the touchpad and the mouse work just fine to move around the mouse, and click. What I would like to get working is scrolling, at least on the external mouse if not on the touchpad also. The usb mouse has a scroll wheel. I got that working just fine before when I was using a 2.4 kernel. The problem is, since both mice are one device, I don't know what to change to get the scroll wheel working. The touchpad has a rocker rather than a wheel to scroll, and I can't remember if I ever got that working. (I don't have the touchpad option in the kernel config selected, the touchpad is just considered to be a PS/2 mouse). Has anyone found a way to do this?

(I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the multimedia forum, sorry)

[metacove]

I don't know much about your laptop. I have a synaptics touchpad and a microsoft intellimouse usb. I have both mice working with scroll abilities. My laptop is an Emachines m5310 with a synaptics touchpad (Includes vertical scrollzone).

I had to install the synaptics modules for x that is included in portage (emerge synaptics).

Here are the required Xconfig lines for my laptop: