This post to tell that I tested the patch yesterday.
Good news! now I have a fully fonctionnal synaptics touchpad on my Vostro V13
I applied the patch on a 2.6.32 kernel
I am using Linux Mint LMDE, debian based on testing branch.
Now my synaptics touchpad is well recognized on gpointing-device-settings, and all options seems to work (horizontal, vertical and circle scrolling, lock of the pad when typing on the keyboard, ...)
so to give a summary of what I did, for other to test :
I modified my /etc/apt/source.list to include sources :
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
then I download linux-source-2.6.32
I followed first steps, ie :
cd /usr/src
debian:/usr/src# tar -xvjf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2
debian:/usr/src# ln -s linux-source-2.6.32 linux
debian:/usr/src# cp /boot/config-‘uname -r‘ /usr/src/linux/.config
then I downloaded the above patch in the /usr/src directory, named it v13.patch and applied it :
debian:/usr/src#cd linux
debian:/usr/src/linux#patch -p1 < ../V13.patch
once applied, i launched last line of the tutorial to build the kernel (debian style) :
debian:/usr/src/linux#make-kpkg --append-to-version "-v13" --initrd buildpackage --config menuconfig
this last line generated a .deb I installed :
debian:/usr/src/linux#dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.32-flo_2.6.32-v13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
After a reboot, with no xorg.conf specific config file on /etc/X11, with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed, my synaptics touchpad now works on my Vostro V13.
Many thanks to the author of the patch!
Very happy to get back a fully functionnal touchpad on my V13
(hoping this will be included in future kernel releases)
Hello you all
This post to tell that I tested the patch yesterday.
Good news! now I have a fully fonctionnal synaptics touchpad on my Vostro V13
I applied the patch on a 2.6.32 kernel
I am using Linux Mint LMDE, debian based on testing branch.
Now my synaptics touchpad is well recognized on gpointing- device- settings, and all options seems to work (horizontal, vertical and circle scrolling, lock of the pad when typing on the keyboard, ...)
I followed this tutorial (in french, sorry) : ashgenesis. developpez. com/linux/ kernel- debian/
http://
so to give a summary of what I did, for other to test : source. list to include sources : ftp.fr. debian. org/debian testing main contrib non-free
I modified my /etc/apt/
deb-src http://
then I download linux-source-2.6.32
I followed first steps, ie : 2.6.32. tar.bz2 linux/. config
cd /usr/src
debian:/usr/src# tar -xvjf linux-source-
debian:/usr/src# ln -s linux-source-2.6.32 linux
debian:/usr/src# cp /boot/config-‘uname -r‘ /usr/src/
then I downloaded the above patch in the /usr/src directory, named it v13.patch and applied it : /usr/src/ linux#patch -p1 < ../V13.patch
debian:/usr/src#cd linux
debian:
once applied, i launched last line of the tutorial to build the kernel (debian style) : /usr/src/ linux#make- kpkg --append-to-version "-v13" --initrd buildpackage --config menuconfig
debian:
this last line generated a .deb I installed : /usr/src/ linux#dpkg -i ../linux- image-2. 6.32-flo_ 2.6.32- v13-10. 00.Custom_ i386.deb
debian:
After a reboot, with no xorg.conf specific config file on /etc/X11, with xserver- xorg-input- synaptics installed, my synaptics touchpad now works on my Vostro V13.
Many thanks to the author of the patch!
Very happy to get back a fully functionnal touchpad on my V13
(hoping this will be included in future kernel releases)
and btw,... Happy new year!!