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Emmanuel Thomé (emmanuel-thome) wrote : Re: [Bug 606238] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

Fine by me.

Thanks all for tidying this up. Nice work.

E.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Dave Turvene <email address hidden> wrote:
> I need to work on several projects so will not have time to look at this
> again this week. I rebased our work on Kevin Cernekee's 14-part
> submission to linux-input. His patchset cleaned-up/refactored a lot of
> the messier code along with a more comprehensive init sequence for the
> Dell E6XXX series. Ben's V5 init sequence is no longer necessary. The
> new dlkm is at [1].
>
> The one final step that needs to be taken is to reconcile florin9doi's
> init sequence for my Dell N5110 and a Fujitsu a512. The systems have
> the same E7/EC signatures but appear to have different init sequences.
> When I use the Fujitsu a512 init sequence, my system is stuck in PS/2
> 3-byte format and, apparently, the converse is true for the Fujitsu.
>
> I have re-added the alps_debug sysfs interface to toggle packet debug
> and switch between the new V5 (was V6) init sequences for the N5110 and
> a512. This can only be done by setting the alps_debug bit and
> rebuilding; I couldn't get it to work on-the-fly.
>
> We are almost to the point of a submitting a final patchset to resolve a
> LOT of ALPS touchpad bugs.
>
> [1]: http://dahetral.com/public-download
>
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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:
> In Progress
> 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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