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touchpad is detected as a mouse on Dell Vostro V13

Bug #689250 reported by Stephan on 2010-12-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #380126: [Karmic] Touchpad not recognised correctly, synaptics driver not in use. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Touchpad at Dell Vostro V13 is detected as a mouse. Therefore, the touchpad isn't working correctly.
Even a solution for other Dell notebooks under
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Touchpad#Touchpad-wird-nicht-erkannt
doesn't work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 0d68718eec7653ebf301424ea09f198e
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
DRM.card0.DisplayPort.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: On
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1366x768
edid-base64: AP///////wAGrywRAAAAAAESAQOQHRB4CvnVlVVUkychUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBEhtWWlAAGTAwIDYAJaQQAAAaDBJWWlAAGTAwIDYAJaQQAAAaAAAA/gBYWDMxR4BCMTMzWFcxAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEBCiAgAHY=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: On
modes:
edid-base64:
Date: Sun Dec 12 13:49:46 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro V13
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=74da4b22-eb4a-4eba-8c58-f3d29b174119 ro quiet splash acpi_sleep=nonvs
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.asset.tag: 12345
dmi.board.name: 031VJ5
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A05
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A05
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd08/27/2010:svnDellInc.:pnVostroV13:pvrA05:rvnDellInc.:rn031VJ5:rvrA05:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA05:
dmi.product.name: Vostro V13
dmi.product.version: A05
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic

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Stephan (stephan-hoehne) wrote on 2010-12-12:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (56.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DRM.card0.SVIDEO.1.txt Edit (107 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (19.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (18.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (23.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (14.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (798 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (246 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (103.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (242.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (28.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (27.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (9.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (57.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

bugbot (bugbot) on 2010-12-13

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)

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Gursimran singh (simar) wrote on 2010-12-16:

Hi stephan,

Thanks for taking your time to report the bug and helping us to make ubuntu better. To work further on this bug, we need some additional information from your side.

Please upload the log using this in your terminal
$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Consider referring this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection for any help.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
importance:	Undecided → Low

Gursimran singh (simar) on 2010-12-16

summary:

- Touchpad is detected as a mouse.
+ touchpad is detected as a mouse on Dell Vostro V13

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Stephan (stephan-hoehne) wrote on 2010-12-20:

output of 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' is:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event9
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

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Ahmed Shams (ashams) wrote on 2011-01-20:

Thank you Stephan. Bug Confirmed as a Kernel's.

affects:	xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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znotdead (zhirafchik) wrote on 2011-02-03:

Seem's to be fixed with new kernel in proposed
(dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/380126 ?)
cat /proc/bus/input/devices:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event8
B: EV=b
B: KEY=420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003