Comment 511 for bug 550625

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clemmy (luca-clem) wrote :

Thank you very much Seth Forshee, good job!

AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad on Sony Vaio VPCSB laptop
Ubuntu 11.10
Version 0.10 of the psmouse-alps-dkms as per comment #492

Touchpad correctly recognized and fully working, including two finger scrolling.

Before I was using the standard psmouse driver with the option proto=imps to have side-scrolling, but two finger scrolling is much better! :)

The only downside I have found is that I need to be very precise with my finger.. this apply to both:
* two-finger scrolling
* double tap-and hold for selecting some text (don't know if there is a better definition)
I don't know if this is implicit in the driver, or if there is some settings that I can tweak with synclient (will do some research later)

I'll give the link to this bugreport to some users on ubuntuforums how have my same notebook, because we all have the same problem. They'll be very happy! Just a suggestion: you should consider preparing a small webpage to present your patched driverd, with newest version at the top of the page. It will be more straightforward for new users to get there, as well as for old users to check if there are any updates available. (Or at least, if you are allowed, update the description of the bug, putting a direct link to the comment with the latest version available)