Comment 356 for bug 606238

Sorry -

Kevin did a lot of work on the driver and then uploaded as an issue
attachment. I just uploaded his tarball to
http://www.dahetral.com/public-download.

No one has reported anything negative about the new driver and it has
been accepted to the linux kernel.

Dave

On 04/19/2013 11:26 AM, Richard Merren wrote:
> When I upgraded my N5110 to the raring ringtail beta last week, the
> touchpad was no longer recognized. I believe I had the 0.4 version
> installed. I uninstalled and removed all of the existing DKMS entries
> and installed the 1.3 version downloaded from http://www.dahetral.com
> /public-download but the touchpad is still not recognized.
>
> Has anyone been successful on an N5110 with this kernel? Any
> suggestions, or any tests I can perform to help resolve this?
>
> Some potentially helpful info:
>
> uname -a:
> Linux rbmlaptop 3.8.0-17-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Sun Apr 7 19:39:35 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Some lines from dmesg:
> [ 8.279185] psmouse serio1: alps: E6 report: 00 00 64
> [ 8.298297] psmouse serio1: alps: E7 report: 73 03 50
> [ 8.316631] psmouse serio1: alps: EC report: 73 02 02
> [ 8.319620] psmouse serio1: alps: ALPS: E7=73 03 50, EC=73 02 02
> [ 8.319626] psmouse serio1: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad: E7=73 03 50, EC=73 02 02
>
> xinput:
> ⎡ 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)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
> ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
>
> dkms status:
> psmouse, alps-1.3, 3.8.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
>