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 works; probably needs to be tightened up a little.  I don't
understand the thought process behind the different protocols.  It seems
like the NRE to keep writing test and production drivers would be
unsustainable.

I created a psmouse DLKM with a README at [1].  If there's anybody else
with an N5110 who wants to try it out please post your results.

[1]: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download

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  synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others

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