[davidw]

It has been working on vBadvanced for quite some time now - I've never used Drupal so I don't know.

Instructions (above)
How do I add the news ticker to my vB Advanced?
To get the ticker in your vbadvanced, you need to add global output variables
Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Portal Output Global Variables and put vbnews_ticker in there
In fact, in my upcoming 2.0 release I will have a screenshot with it work on 2 places in vBAdvanced at once (In the Navbar and also in a module I created for fun).
Drupal shouldn't be that hard to work with though, assuming it works similarly to vBAdvanced.