Support for some Synaptics (and ALPS) touchpads

[Jens W. Klein]

My HP Pavilon zv5000EA Notebook has unfortunally a (by Ubuntu) not supported touchpad.

"[...] the pad requires a moderately complicated software driver to interpret advanced features like the scroll-
wheel area on the right side of the pad. This has to be done in the X server. So you need to install a custom
driver for Synaptics (and ALPS) touchpads and apply an included kernel patch to get the kernel to recognize the
ALPS pad and the X server to talk to it correctly." (from http://www.plausible.org/r3000z/)
Another site mentions this solution is http://www1.uop.edu/~khughes/presario-r3120us/#mouse

I got it running with Debian and a 2.6.8 Kernel.

Driver: http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

If you need help in testing a kernel package just contact me.

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/: http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

bug #8471 seems to claim that ALPS support may interfere with Synaptics support

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

As already described in the other bug... it's either one or the other...
and Daniel gave a good explanation for this decision already.