Comment 5 for bug 580664

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

The abovementioned patch has been included upstream in kernel 2.6.35-rc6. From the changelog:

commit 3e1bbc8d5018a05c0793c8a32b777a1396eb4414
Author: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Mon Jul 19 11:00:52 2010 -0700

    Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte Spring Peak to dmi_noloop_table

    Gigabyte "Spring Peak" notebook indicates wrong chassis-type, tripping up
    i8042 and breaking the touchpad. Add this model to i8042_dmi_noloop_table[]
    to resolve.

    BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580664

    Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa
    Cc: <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

A PPA of this kernel is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/