[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

[kirkpuppy]

Hi Guys,

I'm not an Ubuntu user. But my wife's laptop (Gateway NV59) has a newer
Synaptics/Alps touch pad that isn't recognized by alps.c, just shows up
as a regular ps2 mouse. I applied the patch from dell against kernel
2.6.35.2. After which the touch pad was not functional, but
/proc/bus/input/devices did list it as a Synaptics/Alps touch pad. This
was with psmouse built into the kernel. Tried the patch from comment 154
with kernel 2.6.35.4 and built it as a module this time.  Now the touch
pad on the NV59 is functional and is listed in  /proc/bus/input/devices
but seems about the same as without the patch. I also tried this same
kernel on a Dell 1545, which is well supported by the normal module and
Xorg synaptic driver. The touch pad shows up in /proc/bus/input/devices
but the Xorg synaptics driver can't work with it. Might want to do some
more testing before dropping this in a release kernel.

Oh well, at least Dell is doing something. Thanks for everyone's
efforts.

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Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work
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