Mackenzie and Matteo: thank you so much for helping here! I believe we
are getting close!!!

Unfortunately, I am not very experienced, Mackenzie. Which daily build are you 
referring to? Please bare in mind that my system has an Intel NIC which is very 
likely affected by the e1000e problem, so that I am hesitant to try any of the 
2.6.27 kernels at present. 
However, there is very good news: I tried the patch that Matteo Collina 
suggested (thanks so much Matteo for finding this one!!!). I compiled a Hardy 
kernel, and it works! ALPS touchpad is correctly recognized. (it is listed in 
/proc/bus/input/devices). Also, after mapping the correct event in xorg.conf, 
and enabling SHMConfig, I am able to use synclient to change many touchpad 
settings. I successfully adjusted MinSpeed, MaxSpeed, AccelFactor. Vert and 
Horiz. scroll are working fine (after finding good numbers for RightEdge and 
BottomEdge). 

However, since I am new at kernel compiling, I also had some problems.
Currently my system is running 2.6.24-21. The kernel I had compiled
turned out to be a customized version of 2.6.24-3. The wireless card and
NIC were not recognized, as in earlier Hardy versions (before 8.04.1).
What did go wrong? Did I not install the correct source packages? I
would really like to get this working in Hardy. Can anyone help me? I
believe I am very close. The only thing I need to do is apply the patch
to the most recent version of Hardy.

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ALPS touchpad not recognized in Dell Latitude E6400
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