Touchpad incorrectly detected as PS/2 mouse on Dell Inspiron 15R N5110
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is likely a kernel problem, but I couldn't figure out which package to file it against if it is. I know others have had this bug, but I haven't seen it reported from this hardware.
I'm on a Dell Inspiron 15R (N5110) laptop. It says to specify the manufacturer of the touchpad, but I can't find it. It said "Synaptics touchpad" in a review, and from my googlings I've seen Alps mentioned.
In any case, it's not detected as a touchpad, but as a PS/2 mouse, and thus two finger scrolling and other multitouch features don't work. There's no touchpad tab in System > Administration > Mouse.
I've attached the output of these commands:
$ cat /proc/bus/
$ xinput --list
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Here's the output of uname -a:
Linux morsan 3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:28:43 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
affects: | xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Edvin,
I just got my Inspiron 15R N5110 a few weeks ago and I have the same issues as you described. I read that the new Inspiron came with a new Alps driver that the company doesn't want to release the code. However, I am surprised that no one is able to bypass this issue. I just decided to dump Windows and support Linux however, I had to do so many tweaks that I am having double thoughts about Ubuntu...
Hopefully someone is able to help.