Comment 560 for bug 550625

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote : Re: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:09:47PM -0000, quarara wrote:
> However, just out of curiosity I have tried the Fn+F3 that disables the
> touchpad. Strangely enough it appeared the popup to notify the touchpad
> is disabled. The touchpad is not recognized yet, but could that be a
> hint that something actually happened?

The mechanism for enabling/disabling the touchpad is completely separate
from the touchpad driver itself. I don't think the notification
indicates anything about the touchpad driver.