ALPS touchpad broken in Intrepid

[none]

Binary package hint: xfree86-driver-synaptics

After the latest Intrepid updates, my ALPS touchpad apparently only works in "dumb mouse emulation" mode, with no features like tapping or scrolling working.

Downgrading xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from 0.15.0+git20080820-1ubuntu5 to 0.14.7~git20070706-2.1ubuntu3 made the touchpad work again.

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

My previous comment wasn't quite correct. Tapping still works with the new driver, but scrolling does not.

[Philipp Edelmann (tukss)]

Perhaps you can solve the problem in a way similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/262276 by adding some options to “/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi”. There is a special section for the ALPS touchpad in that file.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please try the package from my PPA (0.15.1-0ubuntu0.1, when it's built):

http://ppa.launchpad.net/tjaalton/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xfree86-driver-synaptics/

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

Unfortunately the PPA package didn't improve things. Same result as with 0.15.0+git20080820-1ubuntu5.