Bug 5606

Description of problem:

On Dell Latitude e6520, the ALPS touchpad is not properly recognized, and is treated as "Generic PS/2 mouse". Scrolling is not functional, nor double touch.

#: 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=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3


#: uname -r
2.6.38.8-desktop586-10.mga


This bug has already benn reported in other linux flavors, examples :

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660#c136

and is reported as a kernel bug :

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660


A temporary patch has been reported here, http://mikebeach.org/2011/04/15/correctly-recognize-alps-touchpad-on-dell-e6510-in-linux/ but I haven't yet tried it.



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