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  1. Bug #606238
  2. Comment #120

Comment 120 for bug 606238

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Vreixo Formoso (metalpain2002) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

I'm experienced this problem with up to date 12.04 in DELL Inspiron 17R SE. The touchpad is recognized as a generic mouse:

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]