AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad on Dell Latitude E4310 not fully configurable

[Bonne Eggleston]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

The touchpad on my E4310 works out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04 but with only limited functionality.
Using the mouse preferences dialogue:
two finger scolling is missing,
disabling "mouse clicks with touchpad" doesn't have any effect
disabling touchpad while typing doesn't have any effect
"edge scrolling" has no effect
"horizontal scrolling" has no effect

synclient also has no effect on the device at all.

xinput also has no effect on the device.

I have tried changing simple settings using xinput to no avail such as setting Device Enabled to be false:
xinput set-prop 13 118 0

I have a feeling that the device is using a fallback device driver and not the proper synaptics one.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 29 17:49:15 2010
DkmsStatus: virtualbox-ose, 3.2.0, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
GdmLog2:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E4310
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=26b21ced-d78f-412f-bd9c-a238649ed40e ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0XG3JF
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd05/28/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE4310:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0XG3JF:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E4310
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
monitors.xml:

system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Bonne Eggleston (bonne)]

Comment #29 of Bug #554050 (which is also a duplicate of bug #550625) mentions that this bug is fixed for kernel linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic.
I have tested that kernel as well as a mainline 2.6.35-rc1 kernel and neither seem to fix this bug.

Perhaps the touchpad on the Latitude E4310 is different to that one?