@langel-vicente: I understand the frustration. However, as kentb wrote,
the only system that's certified is Ubuntu 12.04. Also, you're right:
Dell did provided Canonical with a Sputnik laptop-- one of the beta
ones, without FullHD. Then Dell updated the hardware, and I don't know
(but doubt) that they provided a new laptop to Canonical. Canonical
isn't releasing updates and crossing their fingers, they're releasing
updates for problems they can reproduce and fix. There IS no "proper
testing" as far as this case is concerned: Canonical isn't a huge
company with a collection of all these laptops on which they test every
change. That's infeasible, especially considering that Canonical makes
but a small percentage of kernel changes that you see.

It's worth pointing out that, as far as I've noticed, Dell merely got
all the players to the table (Cypress, Canonical, etc.); that is
certainly worth something, but they have never seemed to really support
this from a software standpoint. The touchpad stuff wasn't Dell-- in
fact, it was me. I don't work for either party-- I just got one of the
beta Sputniks and hated the touchpad.

If you're a developer, are you able to perhaps start looking into this?
You have a good starting point with the workaround posted!

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