Okay so I uninstalled dkms for some weird reason and the scrolling stopped working with Kernel 2.6.38 RC3. I tried installing DKMS again after a reboot but no scrolling.
So I removed 2.6.38 RC3 completely and started again and here are the result on my Dell E6410 running 10.10 64bit. 1. Re-installed Kernel 2.6.38 RC3, rebooted and no scrolling. 2. Tried installing Henk's psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb (sudo dpkg -i psmouse-0.2-1.all.deb), it complained that DKMS wasn't installed, rebooted, still no scrolling. 3. Installed DKMS (sudo apt-get install dkms). DKMS installed ok and also installed some psmouse stuff all by itself, which must have been a hangover from my failed installation attempt in step 2 above. 4. Rebooted and hey presto, Vertical scrolling works a treat. 5. Tried to use the python workaround, but the jittery/jumping mouse cursor when typing was still there. The python script complained about. "unable to find device PS/2 Generic Mouse" Upon investigation sudo lsinput shows /dev/input/event6 bustype : BUS_I8042 vendor : 0x2 product : 0x5 version : 29478 name : "ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" phys : "isa0060/serio1/input0" bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_REL Not sure if this is helpful or not, but thought I would share. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 Title: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
