[Vostro 3550/Latitude XT3] Touchpad hotkey nonfunctional

[Marc Legris]

Using the touchpad hotkey does not result in the touchpad being disabled. Instead only the OSD message is shown for disable/enable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic-pae 2.6.38-11.48
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 1423 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7f00000 irq 50'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76d1,102804b3,00100205 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 10
Date: Mon Aug 29 14:12:57 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=64a5b88b-3cfd-4d03-978b-faf3d70792fb
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 3550
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic-pae root=UUID=4689268c-fe86-45c0-8f62-64c790a5faf8 ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-11-generic-pae N/A
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-11-generic-pae N/A
 linux-firmware 1.52
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/04/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X19
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: X19
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrX19:bd01/04/2011:svnDellInc.:pnVostro3550:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrX19:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Vostro 3550
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof)]

This is an Alps based touchpad, enabling/disabling of this device is not currently supported

[André (aedgsilva)]

It seems that the touchpad is not been reconized as so, but as a mouse. See output from `cat /proc/bus/input/devices`:

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/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event7
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

[Rodrigo Tsuru (caixapostal-o)]

I have applied alps fix from http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/ and everything is ok now!