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 the exact behavior as this thread:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1162831/ I'm running Windows Vista with the Alps 7.2.101.224 driver, which appears to be stable when I'm not doing a serio_raw capture. It is listed as a "Dell Touchpad" in the Device Manager One thing I need to research more is from this: dturvene@growler:539$ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)] The ALPS driver is being used (I can see it's output in system logs) but all control is on the PS/2 Mouse id. For example: xinput "set-prop 13 132 0" disables the touchpad but "xinput set-prop 15 132 0" does nothing. Is the ALPS driver defaulting to a pure PS/2 mode and some secret command sequence gives it enhanced super powers? I messed around with the Vista control panel in serio="psmouse" mode and didn't see anything significant. The driver works fine, even with typing fast, which under Ubuntu causes the pointer to jump to the cursor location. In the Vista driver, there is very limited control of the mouse though (e.g. cannot disable tap-to-click) so maybe it's a very simple piece of hardware. Not much where the driver is install at c:\program files\delltpad. -- 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 notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/606238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
