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Alp Trackpad not working properly

Bug #849138 reported by Bob Sleys on 2011-09-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #550625: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The alp trackpad setting in Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad don't work. The touchpad tab does show up in the Mouse Preferences but no changes made on the tap work. xinput --list show below. The alp touchpad is listed but doing even something as simple as 'xinput set-prop 14 "Device Enabled" 0' doesn't turn the trackpad off. However doing 'xinput set-prop 15 "Device Enabled" 0' does. IE turning off the PS/2 Mouse will turn the trackpad off. Since the ID number can change on boot I can't even place this in a simple script to turn the trackpad off but needed to write a more complex script to get the ID from xinput and use it to turn the PS/2 Mouse off.

bsleys-Satellite-R845:~ $ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ CNF9055 id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Lite-On Technology Corp. HP Basic USB Keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Toshiba input device id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic 2.6.38-11.48
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: bsleys 1585 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xc4820000 irq 49'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,1179062a,00100100 HDA:80862805,11790001,00100000'
   Controls : 17
   Simple ctrls : 9
Date: Tue Sep 13 12:07:20 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=bcd04b4e-1575-439a-b481-712c109ec31b
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite R845
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=d5848ade-2ac0-4f56-8931-a5f229303581 ro quiet splash pcie_aspm=force vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-11-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-11-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.52
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/06/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: Version 3.00
dmi.board.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.board.name: Portable PC
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Version A0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion3.00:bd08/06/2011:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteR845:pvrPT42NU-002003:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
dmi.product.name: Satellite R845
dmi.product.version: PT42NU-002003
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

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Bob Sleys (bsleys) wrote on 2011-09-13:

AcpiTables.txt Edit (212.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (526 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (265 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (57.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (8.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.3.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (316 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (515 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (626 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo_.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (126.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (281.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (870.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote on 2011-09-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 550625 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.