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  1. Bug #760142
  2. Comment #59

Comment 59 for bug 760142

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sillyxone (sillyxone) wrote : Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

thanks Mihai and cement_head, I applied the patch for Maverick and it works very well, although the delay after after typing (1 second) is still a litte too long for me :-) This is an ingenious work-around, kudos to Mihai.

Just in case somebody couldn't apply the patch in Maverick, the current version in Maverick is 1.22, and the patch won't be able to apply. I downloaded version 1.3.99 as mentioned on Mihai's blog (in the comment) instead:

http://patchlog.com/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-1.3.99+git20110116.0e27ce3a.tar.gz

cement_head's patch for Maverick didn't go through completely (FAILED at 67 and and 527) but adding the declaration to isMouse and changing the while loop manually was easy.