[Bug 606238] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

2012-10-29 Thread einheitlix
Excerpt from /var/log/syslog in case this is of interest:

[ 4964.004717] psmouse serio1: >alps: E6 report: 00 00 64
[ 4964.022968] psmouse serio1: >alps: E7 report: 73 03 0a
[ 4964.038963] psmouse serio1: >alps: Model=24, proto_version=4

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[Bug 606238] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

2012-10-29 Thread einheitlix
Update: Dave's patch in version 0.4 works on my Dell Latitude E6530!
So it looks like something broke in between version 0.4 and version 1.0...

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[Bug 606238] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

2012-10-29 Thread einheitlix
Hi,

I am running a new Dell Latituted E6530 and I ran into the problem
described in this thread on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit.

Unfortunately, I have to report that Dave Turvene's kernel patch
candidate did not work for me (or only in a limited way). However, Ben
Gamari's patch did do the trick for me. So, Dave, I fear your patch does
not work for the E6530 yet. I will gladly help you fixing this by
testing other variants of your patch on my laptop or provide you with
the output of some command or other. Just tell me what you need.

In more detail:

First I tried out Dave's patch. I followed exactly Harish's instructions
of comment #242.

This was only a partial success.
Afterwards, I finally had a "Touchpad" tab under "System Settings->Mouse and 
Touchpad". However, neither edge-scrolling nor two-finger-scrolling worked. 
Although I could now enable both of these options, they did not actually 
_work_. It still simply wouldn't let me scroll, even though I enabled both 
options (in turn).

I stress that my touchpad was correctly recognized:

$ xinput -list
⎡ Virtual core pointer  id=2[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ DualPoint Stick   id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad  id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]
[snip]


So, I decided to give Ben's patch a try. I followed exactly useResa's 
instructions posted at
http://resalxh.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/ubuntu-12-04-lts-x64-the-next-step-getting-touchpad-working/

This worked like a charm! :-)
I can now choose between edge-scrolling and two-finger scrolling. Both are 
working.
It leaves a slightly bittersweet feeling though, since Dave's patch which will 
(or has?) be(en) submitted as a kernel patch candidate does not work. Can we 
fix this? I will help out as best I can.

On a side-note, "horizontal two-finger scrolling" does not work with
either Dave's or Ben's patch, but who needs that? ;-) (the pointer will
jump around wildly if I try this with Ben's patch). Horizontal edge-
scrolling does work with Ben's patch.

In any case, kudos to Dave Turvene and Ben Gamari for their work, as
well as Harish and useResa for their helpful comments!

Cheers,

Malte

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[Bug 870560] Re: installing fglrx (post-release updates) fails

2012-03-15 Thread einheitlix
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 873058 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873058

I experienced the very same bug as everybody when I tried to install the
post-release updates for the FGLRX driver through jockey.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I solved the problem on my computer by 
simply _manually_ installing the latest AMD drivers, as explained in the Ubuntu 
Wiki:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

That is, instead of using jockey (i.e., the Ubuntu GUI for third-party
driver installation) to install the latest FGLRX drivers, I did it
manually by creating the necessary *.deb packages myself. It's very easy
to do and it is explained in detail in the Ubuntu Wiki, linked above.

Of course, this does not solve the discrepancy problem between jockey-
common and fglrx-updates as described by Jack Foys in the above comment.
However, I assume that everybody who experienced this bug and began to
look for a solution in the Internet, was actually simply trying to get
the latest FGLRX drivers working. With the manual method, this works
flawlessly, and I am now running the AMD Catalyst 12.2 drivers on my
machine.

$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 
6900 Series]

$ fglrxinfo 
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

I hope someone may find this useful.

Cheers,

Malte

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