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Comment 275 for bug 550625

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AndyVBrown (andyvbrown) wrote :

Okay so I uninstalled dkms for some weird reason and the scrolling stopped working with Kernel 2.6.38 RC3. I tried installing DKMS again after a reboot but no scrolling.

So I removed 2.6.38 RC3 completely and started again and here are the result on my Dell E6410 running 10.10 64bit.

1. Re-installed Kernel 2.6.38 RC3, rebooted and no scrolling.
2. Tried installing Henk's psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb (sudo dpkg -i psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb), it complained that DKMS wasn't installed, rebooted, still no scrolling.
3. Installed DKMS (sudo apt-get install dkms). DKMS installed ok and also installed some psmouse stuff all by itself, which must have been a hangover from my failed installation attempt in step 2 above.
4. Rebooted and hey presto, Vertical scrolling works a treat.

5. Tried to use the python workaround, but the jittery/jumping mouse cursor when typing was still there. The python script complained about.

"unable to find device PS/2 Generic Mouse"

Upon investigation

sudo lsinput shows

/dev/input/event6
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor : 0x2
   product : 0x5
   version : 29478
   name : "ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
   phys : "isa0060/serio1/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_REL

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but thought I would share.