Comment 72 for bug 760142

This reported bug *is* different from #550625 and I am still affected.
I have a Dell E6510 and am running Oneiric. It's not that my
trackpad is recognized and mis-behaving, which is what bug #550625
is about. Instead, it's not even recognized. The work-around I
currently use is to disable the "mouse" when I'm typing, and then
re-enable it when I'm done (using xmonad key binding).

I installed the patch above (for #550625) and it does *NOT* solve
my problem -- the tracpad is still unrecognized. What is really
irritating is that simply floating *over* the tracpad seems to
cause irratic behavior (similar to what is reported in #550625).

From uname:

   Linux cantor 3.0.0-12-generic-pae #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:37:17 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

From dmesg:

    [ 34.975718] alps.c: Enabled hardware quirk, falling back to psmouse-core
    [ 34.988518] input: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12

From /var/log/xorg.1.log

    [ 2083.716] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 ALPS
    GlidePoint (/dev/input/
    event7)
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev
    pointer catchall"
    [ 2083.716] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 ALPS
    GlidePoint'
    [ 2083.716] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
    [ 2083.716] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons
    [ 2083.716] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found scroll wheel(s)
    [ 2083.716] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found relative axes
    [ 2083.716] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found x and y relative axes
    [ 2083.716] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Configuring as mouse
    [ 2083.716] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Adding scrollwheel support
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: EmulateWheelButton: 4,
    EmulateWheelInertia:
    10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
    [ 2083.716] (**) Option "config_info"
    "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/
    input7/event7"
    [ 2083.716] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImPS/2 ALPS
    GlidePoint" (type:
     MOUSE)
    [ 2083.716] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: initialized for relative axes.
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) keeping acceleration
    scheme 1
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration profile 0
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration factor:
    2.000
    [ 2083.716] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration
    threshold: 4
    [ 2083.717] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 ALPS
    GlidePoint (/dev/input/
    mouse0)
    [ 2083.717] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)