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  1. Bug #606238
  2. Comment #161

Comment 161 for bug 606238

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useResa (rdrijsen) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

@bgamari
In reaction to my previous comment (#160), I have succeeded to make the change persistant.

I have firstly backup the original psmouse.ko
sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko ~/<backup directory>/psmouse.ko.backup

Next I have copied the psmouse.ko created from your instructions to replace the original psmouse.ko
sudo cp linux/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko

And issued the following commands
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

This worked. Now also after reboot the touchpad is still detected
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
Once again, thanks for the help and the fix