ALPS touchpad not recognized in Dell Latitude E6400 - reopened ?

[yell0w]

I am having the exact same problem as in this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/270643 and maybe related to this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/296610 .
Since the other first one is marked closed I am reopening this one. The touchpad is still not recognized by X.org :

cat /proc/bus/input/devices give me these:

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

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/input12
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event9
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I am running Intrepid on the Latitude E6400, all updates and upgrades done, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (2.6.27-11.27)
The touchpad is terribly slow, and I can't adjust the sensitivity since it's not recognized.
Also, the horizontal and vertical scrolling are not working.

Please fix it.
Thanks.

[Pablo López Martín (mr-bible2001)]

I confirm this bug for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. In similar bugs, they suggest to add i8042.nomux=1 in the kernel boot options. For example, in grub, in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=aee7eebe-02ba-428a-b90b-afa9aed6dbcd ro quiet i8042.nomux=1

This doesn't fix it for me though.

[Pablo López Martín (mr-bible2001)]

I opened bug in upstream and it got fixed, at least for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 Alps Touchpad. The problem was that the signature for that particular Touchpad was not recognized. Attaching patch for kernel 2.6.29.1. Check http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13134 for more info.

Regards,

Pablo

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

    SRU Justification:

    Impact: This bug prevents the touchpad from being usable for a class of users.

    Fix: The upstream maintainer has created the patch and indicated that it will be co

    Testcase: Tested and confirmed by bug submitter.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Please apply to karmic ASAP.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted linux into hardy-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted linux into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.24-24.56

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linux (2.6.24-24.56) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Stefan Bader]

  * Rebuild of 2.6.24-24.54 with 2.6.24-24.55 security release applied

linux (2.6.24-24.54) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  [Andy Whitcroft]

  * SAUCE: do not make sysdev links for processors which are not booted
    - LP: #295091

  [Brad Figg]

  * SAUCE: Add information to recognize Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 Alps Touchpad
    - LP: #330885
  * SAUCE: Add signatures to airprime driver to support newer Novatel devices
    - LP: #365291

  [Stefan Bader]

  * SAUCE: vgacon: Return the upper half of 512 character fonts
    - LP: #355057

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * SUNRPC: Fix autobind on cloned rpc clients
    - LP: #341783, #212485
  * Input: atkbd - mark keyboard as disabled when suspending/unloading
    - LP: #213988
  * x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs
    - LP: #292619
  * sis190: add identifier for Atheros AR8021 PHY
    - LP: #247889
  * bluetooth hid: enable quirk handling for Apple Wireless Keyboards in
    2.6.24
    - LP: #227501
  * nfsd: move callback rpc_client creation into separate thread
    - LP: #253004
  * nfsd4: probe callback channel only once
    - LP: #253004

 -- Stefan Bader <email address hidden> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:14:36 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.28-15.48

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linux (2.6.28-15.48) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * SAUCE: pnp: add PNP resource range checking function
    - LP: #349314
  * SAUCE: i915: enable MCHBAR if needed
    - LP: #349314

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * SAUCE: Add information to recognize Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 Alps
    Touchpad
    - LP: #330885

  [ Colin Ian King ]

  * Input: atkbd - add forced release keys quirk for Samsung Q45
    - LP: #347623

  [ Manoj Iyer ]

  * SAUCE: Added quirk to enable the installer to recognize NetXen NIC.
    - LP: #389603

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * SAUCE: input: Blacklist digitizers from joydev.c
    - LP: #300143

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: md: wait for possible pending deletes after stopping an
    array"
    - LP: #334994

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * bonding: Fix updating of speed/duplex changes
    - LP: #371651
  * net: fix sctp breakage
    - LP: #371651
  * ipv6: don't use tw net when accounting for recycled tw
    - LP: #371651
  * ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c)
    - LP: #371651
  * netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix unaligned memory access in tcp_sack
    - LP: #371651
  * xfrm: spin_lock() should be spin_unlock() in xfrm_state.c
    - LP: #371651
  * bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
    - LP: #371651
  * bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
    - LP: #371651
  * USB: EHCI: add software retry for transaction errors
    - LP: #371651
  * USB: fix USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB
    - LP: #371651
  * USB: usb-storage: increase max_sectors for tape drives
    - LP: #371651
  * USB: gadget: fix rndis regression
    - LP: #371651
  * USB: add quirk to avoid config and interface strings
    - LP: #371651
  * cifs: fix buffer format byte on NT Rename/hardlink
    - LP: #371651
  * b43: fix b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm return type
    - LP: #371651
  * Add a missing unlock_kernel() in raw_open()
    - LP: #371651
  * x86, PAT, PCI: Change vma prot in pci_mmap to reflect inherited prot
    - LP: #371651
  * security/smack: fix oops when setting a size 0 SMACK64 xattr
    - LP: #371651
  * x86, setup: mark %esi as clobbered in E820 BIOS call
    - LP: #371651
  * dock: fix dereference after kfree()
    - LP: #371651
  * mm: define a UNIQUE value for AS_UNEVICTABLE flag
    - LP: #371651
  * mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation
    - LP: #371651
  * vfs: skip I_CLEAR state inodes
    - LP: #371651
  * net/netrom: Fix socket locking
    - LP: #371651
  * kprobes: Fix locking imbalance in kretprobes
    - LP: #371651
  * netfilter: {ip, ip6, arp}_tables: fix incorrect loop detection
    - LP: #371651
  * ALSA: hda - add missing comma in ad1884_slave_vols
    - LP: #371651
  * SCSI: libiscsi: fix iscsi pool error path
    - LP: #371651
  * SCSI: libiscsi: fix iscsi pool error path again
    - LP: #371651
  * posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
    - LP: #371651
  * sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load
    - LP: #371651
  * spi: spi_write_then_read() bugfixes
    - LP: #371651
  * powerpc: Fix data-corrupting bug in __futex_atomic_op
    - LP...

[Yotam Medini (yotam-medini-gmail)]

You may consider trying my Alps driver in
   http://www.medini.org/software/alps/alps.html
-- yotam