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  2. Comment #311

Comment 311 for bug 606238

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Jouke (digigram) wrote : Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

I can confirm that Kevin Chernekee's version works on my latitude e5530 and ubuntu 12.04
Steps to get it work were:
1) add his ppa and enable the backports
2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cernekee-ppa-precise.list and change to quantal
3) sudo apt-get update
4) sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic #needed for next packages incorrectly does not install the headers as a dependency
5) sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-quantal #this installs the quantal kernel on 12.04
6) sudo apt-get install psmouse-dkms
7) reboot into the new kernel

I can also confirm that i compiled dave turvenes and the stuff at git://github.com/bgamari and in both cases my touchpad is recognized, but freezes with the following messages in dmesg:

[ 18.146841] psmouse serio1: alps: E6 report: 00 00 64
[ 18.165095] psmouse serio1: alps: E7 report: 73 03 0a
[ 19.271188] psmouse serio1: alps: Failed to init: 17 (cmd=e7)
[ 24.853381] psmouse serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
[ 36.153829] psmouse serio1: Failed to disable mouse on isa0060/serio1