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  1. Bug #606238
  2. Comment #267

Comment 267 for bug 606238

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strange1712 (tonatiuhmiramontes) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

I had installed psmouse-alps-dst-1.0 on my dell sinspiron 14R (5420) and everything worked like a charm (more or less, like described by Miguel Ramires and aditzah), but after a kernel upgrade two days ago, two fingers scrolling stopped working. Pad still was recognized by the system and was managed by synaptics except for the "two finger scrolling", which triggered messages in dmesg like
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[ 2155.220936] psmouse serio1: alps: v6 mt 80, resetting
[ 2155.222078] psmouse serio1: alps: v6 mt 87, resetting
[ 2155.223352] psmouse serio1: alps: v6 mt 8, resetting
[ 2155.224735] psmouse serio1: alps: v6 mt 18, resetting
[ 2155.225870] psmouse serio1: alps: v6 mt 0, resetting

I have installed manually psmouse-alps-dst-1.1 and the issue persisted, then reverted back to psmouse-alps-dst-1.0 and it works correctly now.
I guess something was not fully right with that las patch for E6510...