@dturvene
I also have Dell N5110 with Alps touchpad and Dave's patch seems to do the 
trick, so, thank you Dave.

My problem was that touchpad was being recognised as PS/2 Generic Mouse
and the touchpad settings tab was disabled in system settings.

I've tried to fix this problem with this patch:
http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.10/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.10_all.deb
 (it's a dead link now),
but it resulted with both, psmouse and touchpad modules being loaded
http://askubuntu.com/questions/109820/alps-loaded-but-ps-2-mouse-also-loaded.
After this, the touchpad tab was enabled in system settings, but any changes 
made didn't reflect on touchpad.

Dave's patch seems to work best. Touchpad is being recognised as
AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad, touchpad settings are available and
touchpad is responding to changes except for the scrolling (edge and
two-finger). I've checked with synclient the ouptut I was getting and it
looks like touchpad dosen't recognise more than one finger... :-(

But for me, the most annoying problem was accidentaly touching touchpad
while typing, which is now solved because touchpad is disabled while
typing!

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