Looks like there are different versions of the touchpad on N5110. White the
patch is working for most people, a few (including me) have experienced
complete loss of functionality with this patch on N5110


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ahsan Raza <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can confirm that the patch, psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 is working fine and
> now i have following features on Dell Inspiron N5110:
>
> 1) Touch to Click.
> 2) DIsable Touchpad While Typing.
> 3) Two Finger Scrolls
> 4) Edge Scroll
> 5) Disable touchpad by FN+F3
>
>
> After installing the patch you might have sluggish TouchPad, to fix it,
> open terminal and type:
>
> synclient AccelFactor=5
> synclient MaxSpeed=3
>
> Reboot again, and it will be like Windows 7 like touchpad.
>
> (Tested in Linux Mint 12)
>
> Best,
>
> Ahsan
>
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> Title:
>   synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
>   In Progress
> Status in “linux” package in Arch Linux:
>   Fix Released
> Status in openSUSE:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   It wrongly recognized as PS/2 Generic Mouse. And then scrolling does
>   not work, but tapping does.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   AplayDevices:
>    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>    card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>      Subdevices: 1/1
>      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Architecture: i386
>   ArecordDevices:
>    **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>    card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>      Subdevices: 2/2
>      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>      Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>    /dev/snd/controlC0:  karol      2618 F.... pulseaudio
>   CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>   Card0.Amixer.info:
>    Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xe9660000 irq 22'
>      Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1C5'
>      Components : 'HDA:111d76d5,1028040b,00100104'
>      Controls      : 26
>      Simple ctrls  : 16
>   Date: Fri Jul 16 13:36:04 2010
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
>   HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=cdf10c13-029f-401b-afed-f651ca0e2cbe
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
>   MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6510
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   Package: linux-image-2.6.31-22-generic-pae 2.6.31-22.60
>   PccardctlIdent:
>    Socket 0:
>      no product info available
>   PccardctlStatus:
>    Socket 0:
>      no card
>   ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic-pae
> root=UUID=2f511d08-c4e9-44e6-a1d2-5be6172b18c6 ro quiet splash
>   ProcEnviron:
>    PATH=(custom, user)
>    LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.60-generic-pae
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-22-generic-pae 2.6.31-22.24
>    linux-firmware 1.26
>   SourcePackage: linux
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae i686
>   dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2010
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: A03
>   dmi.board.name: 0N5KHN
>   dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.board.version: A00
>   dmi.chassis.type: 9
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd05/28/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0N5KHN:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
>   dmi.product.version: 0001
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>
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