[Bug 289986] Re: wireshark/tshark promiscuous capture on wireless interface locks up machine

2008-11-17 Thread Dave Turvene
Complete system lockup happens to me on a Dell M1530 with an Intel 3945 wireless card running 8.0.4 with a recently installed wireshark: apt-cache policy wireshark wireshark: Installed: 1.0.0-1 Candidate: 1.0.0-1 Version table: *** 1.0.0-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com

[Bug 301571] Re: GMenuSimpleEditor breaks buildout

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Turvene
datakid is correct, and the bug he/she references fixes the problem. The root fault: * buildout uses python modules from /usr/share/pyshared * In 8.10, for some reason, /usr/share/pyshared/GMenuSimpleEditor does not exist so the softlinks fail. As the referenced bug report states, a complete

[Bug 665603] [NEW] package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade:

2010-10-23 Thread Dave Turvene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs22 Upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 via upgrade manager. I use emacs for almost everything and have a heavy .emacs file that loads a lot of libraries. I strongly suspect it's my .emacs. I'm currently running emacs 22.2.1 but not sure if that is pre- or

[Bug 665603] Re: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade:

2010-10-23 Thread Dave Turvene
-- package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 665603] Re: package emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade:

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Turvene
Here is the /tmp/emacs22.* log file when trying to re-install emacs22:: emacs-install emacs22 install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22 cd: 35: can't cd to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/a2ps emacs22 failed at

[Bug 589043] Re: Evince does not use proper print margins

2011-02-08 Thread Dave Turvene
I had similiar symptoms and found this issue report. Using 10.04 and evince 2.30.3, the top margin is too big and the bottom is too small. CUPS is working fine and man:lpoptions -l shows the correct PageSize. Other programs (e.g. a2ps) print accurately. So either 1) evince is broken or 2) it is

[Bug 565810] Re: packages.medibuntu.org not available

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Turvene
DNS entry for 88.191.82.11 pings but times-out on livdvdread4/install- css.sh. I hardcoded name packages.medibuntu.org to 88.191.101.8 and install worked fine (surprisingly quick considering I'm in the U.S.) True, it's a temp fix but I frequently (40-50/year) hardcode /etc/hosts to override

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

2012-10-17 Thread Dave Turvene
I just released a 1.0 version of the alps driver [1]. This is my candidate for linux patch submission for the alps driver supporting the new V5 and V6 protocols. The code mods in this release bring it into compliance with the patch submission requirements. I made no logic changes. I had to

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

2012-10-17 Thread Dave Turvene
@Nicolas Dumoulin It looks like the driver is not detecting the alps touchpad. Look from the bottom up in the syslog (probably /varlog/syslog) for lines with psmouse. If there are lines with alps: E6 then the driver is installed correctly. What does the line with alps: command_mode: say?

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

2012-09-18 Thread Dave Turvene
I fixed a couple panic situations, added a runtime debug flag and fixed (I think) edge-scrolling. Additionally I segmented the V6 operations from the other protocols so other laptops can uses this without a kernel panic. This driver should work for all known touchpads - it's the from the latest

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

2012-09-18 Thread Dave Turvene
On 09/18/2012 12:11 PM, Richard Merren wrote: I downloaded Dave's patch in #144 and followed the install instructions in #152. On reboot, my computer would freeze during boot with the ubuntu logo and the row of dots. Attempts to boot into recovery mode also did not complete, with freeze for

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

2012-09-19 Thread Dave Turvene
Vreixo - responses inline. On 09/19/2012 09:25 AM, Vreixo Formoso wrote: I have been testing last Dave driver on my Inspiron 17R SE. First, I have change the line added by Dave on alps_model_data to { { 0x73, 0x03, 0x50 }, 0x02, ALPS_PROTO_V6, 0xc8, 0xc8, 0 }, because the command

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

2012-09-19 Thread Dave Turvene
On 09/19/2012 05:21 PM, Richard Merren wrote: Still getting crashes/hang on boot with this driver on my N5110. No change from the 0.1 to the 0.2 version. Nothing for psmouse gets logged in the syslog at all. Following the steps within the build_alps function of the README file, all is well

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

2012-09-20 Thread Dave Turvene
I just released a 0.3 version of the alps driver [1]. So far I have no idea how to decode the multi-touch stuff. So I hacked an odd little code frag to discard all packets that are not single touch. The problem is there's a subtle transition from single to multi- touch that LOOKS like a wild

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

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Turvene
On 09/21/2012 09:41 AM, Midhat wrote: Hello Dave. I tested the new driver. It does not crash the kernel now and the alps device shows up in `xinput list` , but the mouse pointer does not move. I see activity in the syslog when I try to move the pointer, but the pointer doesnt move at all. The

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

2012-10-23 Thread Dave Turvene
There are two layers for input processing 1) The Alps driver which processes the raw input and feeds it to 2) X11, which handles cursor movement, scrolling, buttons using a large number of properties The GUI is one way to change the X11 properties. I traced where the properties are saved

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

2012-10-25 Thread Dave Turvene
in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Dave Turvene (dturvene) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 Title: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

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

2012-10-25 Thread Dave Turvene
I am submitting two patches for integration into the upstream Ubuntu and Linux source. I used the kernel canonical patch format and followed the kernel coding styles. First of two patches. ** Patch added: Working Alps touchpad for Dell E6430 from Ben Garami

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

2012-11-02 Thread Dave Turvene
@Nicolas D. Your alps touch pad on the E6230 is failing to complete the initialization sequence. It looks like it has the same signature as the alps touchpad on the E6430 and E6530 so the system thinks it's configured but it's not operational. Possible solutions: 1. Hardware failure and the

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

2012-11-02 Thread Dave Turvene
@ Markus and Nicolas Both of your E6230 systems have the same symptoms so I think it is systematic. My thoughts: Problem summary: The E6230 touchpad has the same signature and command-mode response as the E6430, so it is detected as a V4 protocol. The initialization sequence fails about

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

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Turvene
I have attached the linux canonical patch file for the fixes by Malte for the E6530. This should be applied after patch 1 submitted in post 236 and patch 2 submitted in post 237. @Ubuntu Based on comments in the subsequent two weeks since I submitted the patches, it looks like there may be a

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

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Turvene
@Miguel and Adi I am almost certain your problems are caused by your X tuning and not the driver. Make sure you are using the ALPSPS/2 ALPS Glidepoint interface and not the default PS/2 Mouse. Try using xinput setprops to tune the Synaptics Velocity Scaling, Synaptics Move Speed, etc. If there

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

2012-10-31 Thread Dave Turvene
@malte skoruppa Thanks for your efforts on this. Yes, I made mistake(s) converting the V5 init sequence, which you debugged and successfully fixed. I have added your changes to a new patch candidate at [1] Please test. If I hear nothing in a couple days I will resubmit the E6430/E6530 patch

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

2013-04-16 Thread Dave Turvene
@libondom-0 My guess is this is another mutation of the ALPS touchpad. It clearly is a new signature, which you added, which indicates new behavior: the trackstick. There have been several new significant behaviors added to the alps driver (Rushmore and Dolphin). The best I can recommend, not

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

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Turvene
@libondam-0 Response to comments 348, 349, 350: The easiest, and I mean *easiest*, way is to hack alps.c for the raw input from the touchpad and then xinput setprop to tune the X11 cooked input. For brand-new alps touchpads that don't adhere to any of the known protocols, this is not sufficient

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

2013-04-23 Thread Dave Turvene
Greetings - I have received a number of emails about running the our dlkms on a 3.5+ kernel. Kevin Cernekee made the required API changes and added it as an attachment to this issue. I have copied his tarball to my public area at:

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

2013-04-23 Thread Dave Turvene
Sorry - Kevin did a lot of work on the driver and then uploaded as an issue attachment. I just uploaded his tarball to http://www.dahetral.com/public-download. No one has reported anything negative about the new driver and it has been accepted to the linux kernel. Dave On 04/19/2013 11:26 AM,

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

2012-12-20 Thread Dave Turvene
I added an ACPI interface to get the REAL alps hardware type. See version 1.2 at [1]. I hacked the driver to wrap the E6/E7/command mode selecton code inside a function that checks the ACPI PS2 hardware id against a table (which has only one entry right now, DLL04B0 for my Dell N5110. If there

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

2012-12-20 Thread Dave Turvene
@florin9doi I added in your minimal init sequence but kept getting bare_ps2_packet notices. It didn't work for me. In my 1.2 tarball I called your init alps_hw_init_v6_minimal. The original one works fine. @emmanuel-thome Nice cleanup! I started to merge but the effort looked to be too

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

2013-02-26 Thread Dave Turvene
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: opensuse Assignee: (unassigned) = Dave Turvene (dturvene) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

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

2013-03-01 Thread Dave Turvene
@matt I noticed that Kevin's patches were accepted for the next 3.7 kernel release. I also noticed that a fedora maintainer backported Kevin's patches to the next Fedora release. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812111 I have not seen any activity by Ubuntu maintainers to

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

2013-02-11 Thread Dave Turvene
I need to work on several projects so will not have time to look at this again this week. I rebased our work on Kevin Cernekee's 14-part submission to linux-input. His patchset cleaned-up/refactored a lot of the messier code along with a more comprehensive init sequence for the Dell E6XXX

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

2012-07-19 Thread Dave Turvene
@sforshee System: Dell Inspiron 15R-5294BK running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I was messing around in Virtualbox (4.1.18) for something else and had a chance to follow your touchpad reverse engineering notes. The API has been updated a little. However, I captured the attached exchange three times. I

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

2012-07-19 Thread Dave Turvene
@sforshee Oops, forgot to add the vbox log attachment. ** Attachment added: vbox startup log using export VBOX_LOG=+dev_kbd.e.l.f https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238/+attachment/3228772/+files/vbox.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

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

2012-07-23 Thread Dave Turvene
See my post in comment 126... I thought I was getting closer but it seems like a dead end. The ALPS touchpad on my Dell I15R N5110 has an E7 signature of 73 03 50. When I do a vbox capture it spits out pure PS/2 mouse commands and responses, nothing specific to the ALPS driver. I'm getting

[Bug 737051] Re: [regression] Alps touchpad detected, but scrolling not working

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
I installed the psmouse with ALPS support from #57 and it works better but is still buggy. I still get occasional spurious refocus actions even when typing and xinput watch-props says Synaptics Off is set. I'm using 12.04 LTS on a Dell I15R. Current issue: * syndaemon must be running in the

[Bug 903236] Re: Touchpad incorrectly detected as PS/2 mouse on Dell Inspiron 15R N5110

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
Just came across this bug report... I'm having the same problem and diagnosed, adding a comment to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/737051 I've got the psmouse-alps-0.10 driver installed and put a couple printk's in so I know it's being hit. However, there are still

[Bug 903236] Re: Touchpad incorrectly detected as PS/2 mouse on Dell Inspiron 15R N5110

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 606238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 606238 synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 773165] Re: Touchpad is recognized as PS/2 and ALPS simultaneously

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 606238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 737051 [regression] Alps touchpad detected, but scrolling not working ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 606238 synaptic touchpad not recognized

[Bug 737051] Re: [regression] Alps touchpad detected, but scrolling not working

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 606238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 606238 synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 606238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 606238 synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

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

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Turvene
Dell I15R N5100 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I've just marked 678103, 737051, 903236 as dups to this bug. Each has similar symptoms at root and seems to deal with the ALPS touchpad through the synaptics interface. Some solutions seem to revolve around the X setup but I couldn't make any work

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

2013-02-18 Thread Dave Turvene
I'm just getting back to this. Here's my view of the bug progress based on the last several (okay, few) comments: 1) the psmouse-alps-1.3 dkms works well for MOST laptops, not those based on the mysterious Dolphin V2 init sequence. 2) the subsequent psmouse-alps-1.3-alt dkms posted by Kevin has

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

2013-02-19 Thread Dave Turvene
Kevin - Responses inline On 02/18/2013 05:07 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote: Just so we're on the same page - the input-next tree [1] (input.git, branch next) is Dmitry's staging area for proposed input subsystem changes to send to Linus for the next merge window - currently targeting Linux 3.9.

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

2013-01-25 Thread Dave Turvene
@Kevin Cernekee I have been asked to submit my patchset directly to the linux-input newgroup. My patchset incorporates Ben's reverse-engineering for the alps signature 0x73, 0x03, 0x0a and mine for 0x73, 0x03, 0x50. Your patchset for 0x73, 0x03, 0x0a is very different, and has a lot of code

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

2013-01-25 Thread Dave Turvene
@Masoud The alps driver does not support three-finger or four-finger gestures for any platforms. It would be nice but it took a better man than I, florin9doi, to figure out the two-finger gesture for our platform, and we do not have a 6430u to reverse-engineer. @florin9doi Based on your

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

2013-01-26 Thread Dave Turvene
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: (unassigned) = Dave Turvene (dturvene) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

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

2013-01-26 Thread Dave Turvene
I reviewed Kevin Cernekee's touchpad code for Dell E6230, E6430, E6410 submitted as a patch set to the linux-input listserve. This is the main avenue for linux input driver patch submissions. It looks like it has the same functionality as Ben Garami's fix for the E6430 but is a lot cleaner:

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

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Turvene
@Matt Yeah, I've received a couple driver doesn't compile emails recently for the newest kernels. See this issue on Arch Linux https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psmouse-alps-driver with an appropriate work around. I don't plan on moving to a 3.5+ kernel in the near future and I have not heard

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

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Turvene
@David J I just saw your #291 post. Your device looks similar to the Latitude 6430, etc. that Ben reverse engineered. But it has a different command-mode response (0x88 0x08 0x22). Maybe it still conforms to the V5 protocol. To test this, add a new entry to alps_model_data and add a new

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

2012-09-27 Thread Dave Turvene
a lot of crap and debug. I updated alps.txt from the linux source documentation to include the two new protocols: v5 from Ben Garami and v6 from our collective fixes. [1]: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: (unassigned) = Dave Turvene

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

2012-09-27 Thread Dave Turvene
take ownership to merge upstream to linux-input -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 Title: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others To manage

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2012-06-04 Thread Dave Turvene
I just got a Dell Inspiron 15R, installed precise and updated. The current kernel is 3.2.0-24-generic-pae. The problem still exists, and was frustrating me. I fixed it (hopefully) by following the instructions on this thread to add the ALPS awareness in the psmouse driver:

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2012-06-04 Thread Dave Turvene
Oh, one thing I should add is that the module_param definition in alps.c:135 gives a compile error. I set alps_dump_packet=1 and commented out #135. I'm not familiar with linux 3 driver frameworks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2012-06-06 Thread Dave Turvene
Well, after a day of testing I think something is still wrong, only less so. I still get occasional spurious focus changes. It only happens when I'm typing really fast. And then the focus changes to where I rested the cursor. Still, it happens a lot less frequently. @quarara: Yeah, it's a

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2012-06-06 Thread Dave Turvene
Uggh. In my instructions dkms add should be changed to dkms build. Also, to rebuild (e.g. add dbg statements), the simplest way is sudo dkms remove psmouse/alps-0.10 --all to remove package. psmouse/alps-0.10 is an alternative to -m psmouse -v alps-0.10 Dave -- You received this bug

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

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Turvene
See #128 System: Dell I15R N5110, Ubuntu 12.04 I just can't give up on this freakin' bug. Running Linux it's unstable. I tried to reverse engineer using sforshee method (vbox running Vista) and all that is displayed is pure PS/2, no alps_command_mode stuff. So I hacked a small program

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

2012-07-27 Thread Dave Turvene
@bgamari I started tracking your progress for New Alps protocol in the wild? the linux-input list. The signature and command-mode id you report are the same as what I'm seeing on my Dell I15R N5110. Since your discussion seems to be more fruitful there, I'm going to respond there. -- You

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

2012-08-17 Thread Dave Turvene
Discussion on the linux-input list. It looks like the ALPS protocol has been broken for a Dell E6230. I'm still having problems on my Dell Inspiron 15R N5110. --- snip --- On 08/16/2012 01:04 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com writes: snip Hopefully I'll find some more

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

2012-09-15 Thread Dave Turvene
I finally got the Alps touchpad working on a Dell N5110. Briefly, it's a new protocol to init the device and the 6-byte packets coming from it are a new format. I didn't spend much time trying to understand the init sequence, just stuck the qemu packet dump into a new (V6) init function. But it

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

2012-09-15 Thread Dave Turvene
@quarara Explode the tarball: cd $HOME mkdir Stage tar -jxvf $HOME/Download/psmouse-alps-dst-0.1.tbz This will make a $HOME/Stage/README that should explain everything. It has a couple embedded scripts to build/install the DLKM. I forgot to document the DLKM source needs to be put under

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

2012-09-16 Thread Dave Turvene
Good to see so many people testing this! Yes, it's a first cut and does not include multi-touch. The next rev of the DLKM will include: 1) more diagnostics to ascertain the ALPS model and behavior 2) support all recognized alps touchpads - including Ben Gamari's work on the E6430