Cursor doesn't move after multitouch on alps touchpad

[Phidias]

hid-alps has a bug which cause the issue after multitouch. In some cases it may also happened after closing lid (which triggers multitouch).

There's already a fix in upstream and need to backport to Xenial and Yakkety:

commit 9a54cf462d6f3c383a5a4f5fe15c020a03db44e6
Author: Masaki Ota <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 27 14:04:37 2016 +0900

    HID: alps: fix multitouch cursor issue

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1641874

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-yakkety' to 'verification-done-yakkety'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-yakkety' to 'verification-failed-yakkety'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Verified with 201611-25212 on Yakkety, this issue will gone with proposed Yakkety kernel 4.8.0-32
Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.8.0-32.34

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linux (4.8.0-32.34) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1649358

  * Vulnerability picked up from 4.8.10 stable kernel (LP: #1648662)
    - net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send

linux (4.8.0-31.33) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648034

  * Update hio driver to 2.1.0.28 (LP: #1646643)
    - SAUCE: hio: update to Huawei ES3000_V2 (2.1.0.28)

  * Yakkety update to v4.8.11 stable release (LP: #1645421)
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    - KVM: Disable irq while unregistering user notifier
    - arm64: KVM: pmu: Fix AArch32 cycle counter access
    - KVM: arm64: Fix the issues when guest PMCCFILTR is configured
    - ftrace: Ignore FTRACE_FL_DISABLED while walking dyn_ftrace records
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    - genirq: Use irq type from irqdata instead of irqdesc
    - fuse: fix fuse_write_end() if zero bytes were copied
    - IB/rdmavt: rdmavt can handle non aligned page maps
    - IB/hfi1: Fix rnr_timer addition
    - mfd: intel-lpss: Do not put device in reset state on suspend
    - mfd: stmpe: Fix RESET regression on STMPE2401
    - can: bcm: fix warning in bcm_connect/proc_register
    - gpio: do not double-check direction on sleeping chips
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free of usb_device at disconnect
    - ALSA: hda - add a new condition to check if it is thinkpad
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    - i2c: mux: fix up dependencies
    - i2c: i2c-mux-pca954x: fix deselect enabling for device-tree
    - Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all
    - kbuild: add -fno-PIE
    - scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
    - x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE
    - kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning
    - ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time
    - ARM: dts: imx53-qsb: Fix regulator constraints
    - crypto: caam - do not register AES-XTS mode on LP units
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    - virtio-net: drop legacy features in virtio 1 mode
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    - clk: mmp: pxa168: fix return value check in pxa168_clk_init()
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    - mfd: cor...