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Comment 152 for bug 606238

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sam (samer-mirror) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

@dturvene
Another case in which Dave's fix worked. I have a Dell N5110, Ubuntu 12.10 x64 and it worked smoothly. It used to be recognized as PS/2 Generic Mouse and now it is recognized as AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad. Thanks Dave!

@jkmirko , @quarara
The same as you two, scrolling is not working (neither edge nor two-finger). Touchpad settings appear and fn+f3 works.

For newbies, I'll detail more the instructions provided before by David, in order to install it:

#This will unzip the compressed file in $HOME/Stage, if it was downloaded to ~/Download/
cd
mkdir Stage
cd Stage
tar -jxvf ~/Download/psmouse-alps-dst-0.1.tbz

#This will make a $HOME/Stage/README file that explains how David did it.

cd usr/src
sudo cp -Rvup * /usr/src
cd /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-0.1

#You will need the package "dkms"
sudo dkms add .
sudo dkms status
#Now it should show the module added
sudo dkms build -m psmouse -v alps-dst-0.1
#Now it should be built
sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v alps-dst-0.1
#Now it is installed in the current kernel

Reboot and it should work. If you have issues adding, building or installing, you are probably dealing with the wrong folder. If you find an error, it will point to the log file to check out. For more info and examples on how to deal with dkms, you can check:
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/manpage.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS