Comment 97 for bug 606238

@sam @koen that's so weird, unless Dell's shipping some very different hardware under the same model number. I can only report (as a lame user) what things look like from my side on what I thought was identical hardware.

Here's an extract describing my N5110's touchpad before and after the installation of psmouse-alps-dkms from running...

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

...in the terminal, BEFORE ...

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=7326
N: Name="ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event11
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

...and AFTER installation of psmouse-alps-dkms ...

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7326
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input16
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event16
B: PROP=8
B: EV=b
B: KEY=e420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=2608000 1000003

@sam What does your cat /proc/bus/input/devices show?

I find that after installing the psmouse-alps-dkms_0.10_all.deb package, (because it's automagically configured differently), the 'Touchpad' tab appears in the system utility 'Mouse and Touchpad', (which was previously missing), and allows me to activate, for example, two-finger scrolling.

@sam when you say 'doesn't work for me' are you looking for the Touchpad tab to appear in 'Mouse and Touchpad' and be able to activate various touchpad behaviours, or something else? Hope you won't feel patronised by this as it sounds like you are fairly technical but I found this article http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html very useful to get away from reporting bugs as 'doesn't work'.