The same problem occurs on the new Dell Inspiron 1720. The trackpad in this case is an ALPS GlidePoint (according to Windows).
Even with the most recent production kernel (2.6.22) this device is not recognized and defaults to a generic PS/2 mouse: cat /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000 N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0 B: EV=7 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 It appears that this device is returning something that the macro: SYN_ID_IS_SYNAPTICS defined in the kernel source file: drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.h does not recognize as being a synaptics compatible device, or if it does then the subsequent trackpad model ID or capabilities tests fails. In my case at least, I don't think this is a problem in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) but rather an issue for the synaptics driver maintainers. -- Touchpad not recognized on Dell Inspiron 1420 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
