Comment 1 for bug 1228471

After a lot of research I found that this is a long standing and well known problem with Ubuntu. It may affect other distributions too, but my searching was focused on Ubuntu and its derivatives only.

The root of the problem appears to be that my touch pad is detected as a generic mouse instead of an Alps touch pad.

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]

I was able to get alps drivers installed using this: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download. After that I was able to get edge and two-finger scrolling to work. I wonder what issues I might have in the future with eOS after doing this though. It would be nice to have a supported method to get this working.

As a test I also installed Mint 15 (based on 13.04 of course) and found that it detected my touch pad correctly by default. I assume that this has finally be fixed in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04. Any chance that this could be patched into eOS 0.2? Not sure if that's asking too much. Thanks.