This is all way beyond my skills, but let me know if you need me to do
anything (you'll have to walk me through it). It sounds like you are making
headway, so I'll be watching for a solution I can easily install!  Thank you
all for your work!

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Chase Douglas
<email address hidden>wrote:

> @J. McDonald:
>
> Good find! I would appreciate it if someone could test if blacklisting
> psmouse solves the issue. Be aware though, that if you blacklist psmouse
> and the alps driver still isn't working, then you may have difficulties
> in the desktop session :). If you find yourself in this situation,
> switch to a VT using 'ctrl+alt+1', log in, and use "sudo rm
> /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad" to delete the blacklist. Then run 'sudo
> restart gdm' to start the X desktop again.
>
> The maintainer of the input subsystem of the kernel noted that this
> could also be due to a new ALPS protocol. If that's the case, we may
> have difficulties determining how to talk to these new mice.
>
> --
> Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences
> work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>
> I have Ubuntu 9.10 and an Alps touchpad (E7: 73 02 64). Chase fixed the
> kernel so that it was recognized  and, indeed, the touchpad shows up in both
> gsynaptics and system>preferences>mouse, but when I actually try to adjust
> the settings nothing changes. My goal is to disable the tap-to-click feature
> or disable the touchpad when typing. Chase suggests it may be something
> related to the driver and to open another bug.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Mar 28 22:02:25 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm3 Notebook PC
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.1.2-1ubuntu7
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-21-generic
> root=UUID=f1e2e19e-a0f8-407d-9533-c5ba95a8be50 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.58~alps4-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
>  xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
>  libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
>  libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
>  xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
>  xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
> XorgConf:
>  Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier "Macintosh mouse button emulation"
>        Driver "synaptics"
>        Option "SHMConfig" "true"
>  EndSection
> dmi.bios.date: 12/04/2009
> dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Corp.
> dmi.bios.version: F.22
> dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
> dmi.board.name: 3656
> dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.board.version: 44.1D
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnInsydeCorp.:bvrF.22:bd12/04/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondm3NotebookPC:pvr0486110000241F00110320000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn3656:rvr44.1D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm3 Notebook PC
> dmi.product.version: 0486110000241F00110320000
> dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> fglrx: Not loaded
> system:
>  distro:             Ubuntu
>  architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-21-generic
>
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