Comment 300 for bug 606238

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Masoud Abkenar (mabkenar) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

Thanks to the work of Dave and David J (comment #295) and many others, I could finally make Ubuntu detect my touchpad as a touchpad on Latitude E6430u. I used version 1.1 of the driver.

xinput -list:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]

From the Ubuntu setting, I could enable two-finger scrolling (default was on Edge scrolling which also worked). I also have two finger tapping as right click. However, I can't get any other gesture work (3- and 4- finger gestures described in the page below).

@David J
Here is a list of Ubuntu multitouch gestures that you can test: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/