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Comment 114 for bug 606238

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Elridge D'Mello (elridge-dmello) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

I tried to install the DKM driver from http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.10/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.10_all.deb on my Dell Inspiron 15R running Ubuntu 12.04. The installation fails due to an apparent compilation problem:

/var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/alps.c:135:33: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’

I've attached the output of the console. The make.log contents are listed below:
DKMS make.log for psmouse-alps-0.10 for kernel 3.2.0-25-generic (x86_64)
Sat Jun 23 17:20:07 CDT 2012
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic'
  LD /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/built-in.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/psmouse-base.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/synaptics.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/alps.o
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/alps.c:135:33: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src/alps.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build/src] Error 2
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/psmouse-alps/0.10/build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic'

Any guidance is greatly appreciated!