[Bug 632884] [NEW] Add support for Intellimouse Mode in ALPS touchpad on Dell Latitude series Laptops

Jerone Young jerone.young at canonical.com
Wed Sep 8 03:53:37 UTC 2010


Public bug reported:

Currently many Dell Latitude systems have a ALPS touchpad and are
missing scroll support. Dell will still be shipping this touchpad with
upcoming Latitudes.

Though the issue now is upstream does not want to take the patch, as
they want access to the mulitouch capabilities of the ALPS touchpad.
ALPS has stated they will not give out specs for these capabilities and
everyone should use the patch below, developed by Dell:

The final patch can be found here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg10416.html

First submission can be found here..has more of a thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg10396.html

** Affects: oem-priority
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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 Add support for Intellimouse Mode in ALPS touchpad on Dell Latitude series Laptops
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632884
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