Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
It would seem that this bug is similar to the following although on different
hardware:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/650529
Dell Inspiron N5030 running Ubuntu Maverick 10.10, kernel
2.6.37-020637rc2-generic.
The touchpad is failing to be recognised as a touchpad and being
configured instead as a PS/2 generic mouse. As a consequence, settings
such as touchpad sensitivity, scrolling, tapping, multi-touch etc.
cannot be altered in the slightest making the touchpad very
unresponsive and pretty much useless.
Here are the outputs to a couple of commands that may be useful:
~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=11 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_0.3M id=9 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave
keyboard (3)]
lumbfamily@lumb:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
###
#OTHER DEVICES HERE
###
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event6
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
It appears, although not mentioned above, that this Dell model uses an
Alps touchpad.
Please can something be done about this bug so that a laptop that
offers otherwise full support on Ubuntu can be made even better - this
issue seriously affects the usability of this computer under Ubuntu
and I suspect it will affect many users as this is a popular model!
Thanks
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu5
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-020637rc2-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: btrfs zlib_deflate crc32c libcrc32c ufs qnx4 hfsplus
hfs minix ntfs vfat msdos fat jfs xfs exportfs reiserfs binfmt_misc parport_pc
ppdev snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi i915 snd_seq_midi_event arc4 drm_kms_helper ath9k
snd_seq drm i2c_algo_bit video mac80211 snd_timer snd_seq_device intel_agp
intel_gtt snd dell_wmi ath9k_common output ath9k_hw dell_laptop psmouse agpgart
ath uvcvideo serio_raw sparse_keymap videodev v4l1_compat cfg80211 soundcore
snd_page_alloc lp shpchp parport dcdbas usb_storage ahci libahci atl1c
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 21 11:47:41 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.37-020637rc2-generic
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