Touchpad not recognized on new Dell E5410

[Andrea Ratto]

Dell has updated its Latitude laptop line and it appears that once again the touchpad is not correctly recognized.

/proc/bus/input/devices shows:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event14
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

There may be an additional issue here: this laptop has a "pointing stick" or "touchpoint" too. That and the touchpad get mapped on the same input. If I open the device file I can see data when I use any of them.

As expected the xorg synaptics driver will not work with this device:
(--) Synaptics Touchpad: no supported touchpad found
(EE) Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.

This machine is one of the few laptop you can buy today without paying M$, at least in Italy. I think it's important to have it supported well. Anything I can do to help, just ask.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic 2.6.32-23.37
Regression: No
Reproducible: No
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
AlsaVersion:
 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
 Compiled on Jun 14 2010 for kernel 2.6.32-23-generic (SMP).
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: andrea 1618 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Nessun file o directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x97d40000 irq 37'
   Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7605,10280429,00100104 HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 14
Date: Fri Jul 9 06:45:49 2010
Frequency: Once a day.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d40fe340-a7ea-499b-9ddd-f2a654ac9f8b
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5410
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic root=UUID=9975ed0a-f0c3-44d0-a64c-68507dd4da5f ro i8042.nomux=1 quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.1
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 06/02/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 058T0R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd06/02/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn058T0R:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5410
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.