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  1. Bug #606238
  2. Comment #299

Comment 299 for bug 606238

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Kevin Cernekee (cernekee) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

I spent some time playing around with the ALPS binary driver, and I found a detection/init sequence which works on both E6230 and E6430 (at least the two units I tried).

It would be helpful to see test results + dmesg dumps from users of ALPS trackpads (ANY model), as my sample size is very small and I'd like to make sure this does not cause regressions on other hardware versions.

Patches:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg24494.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg24496.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg24495.html

I posted a DKMS version for 12.10 (Quantal) in my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~cernekee/+archive/ppa

To install:

sudo -s
add-apt-repository ppa:cernekee/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install psmouse-dkms
reboot