How do I upgrade the kernel after adding PPA. Need to patch for fix to Synaptic touchpad on vostro v13

[Tim Gardner]

On 08/19/2010 10:48 PM, Simon Hook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Dell Vostro v13 with Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32-24-generic.
> Unfortunately the synaptics touchpad is not recognized and assigned to a
> generic mouse driver. The generic driver skips and does not support side
> scrolling. The bug has been submitted to launchpad and is described here:
> Bug #380126</bugs/380126>
> Bug #545565</bugs/545565>
>
> Recently I was pointed to a kernel patch which should fix it but the
> patch generates errors when applied to my kernel version but I was told
> the patch would work with the latest kernel and I could use the ppa to
> get the latest kernel.
>
>   https://edge.launchpad.net/~kernel-ppa/+archive/ppa
> <https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Ekernel-ppa/+archive/ppa>
>
> I have added the ppa as a software source and done an apt-get update but
> my system has not updated and I do not know what I am doing wrong. Here
> are the steps I have been through:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/dell-recovery/+question/121518
>
> How do I install the latest kernel so I can try the patch. The problem
> is really annoying and affects numerous people.
>
> thanks for any help -- S.
>

You'll be wanting to install one of the LTS backport meta packages. Now 
that you've added the software source entry, you can search for a 
package, i.e.,

sudo apt-get update
apt-cache search lts

The package you likely want (since you have a desktop) is 
linux-image-generic-lts-backport-maverick, i.e.,

sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-backport-maverick

which will also install all of its dependencies, namely 
linux-image-2.6.35-17-generic.

This meta package will continue to depend on the latest LTS backport 
kernel, regardless of package name changes caused by ABI bumps.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com