Description of problem: Dell Latitude 5580 - Touchpad not recognized (System settings / KDE) Hi there! Thanks for all your work! Not sure whether I'm in the right place here - if not just point me elsewhere. I own a Dell Latitude. It has a Touchpad. But touchpad is not recognized as such - only as mouse. This is a pita, as I want the scroll direction on the pad to differ from the mouse-wheel one. I did install xinput & x11-driver-input-synaptics -> did not help. Seems like the hid-alps kernel module is needed (but is not available in the distribution). I did compile a recent vanilla (5.8.) kernel with CONFIG_HID_ALPS=m, rebooted and the touchpad was recognized. Would it be possible to include CONFIG_HID_ALPS in a future kernel? Thanks Wolf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Open system settings -> Input devices -> Touchpad --> "No touchpad found" Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Dell Latitude 5580 2. Open System Settings 3.
Hi, thanks for reporting this bug. You are the right place to report this. As you mention a workaround, this must be fixed in Cauldron and in Mageia 7, our current production version. Assigned to the package maintainer. (Packagers: Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)
Assignee: bugsquad => kernelPriority: Normal => HighKeywords: (none) => TriagedWhiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOOComponent: New RPM package request => RPM PackagesTarget Milestone: --- => Mageia 7Source RPM: kernel-desktop-5.7.19-1.mga7 => kernel-desktop-5.7.19-1.mga7.src.rpmSeverity: enhancement => major
Summary: Request to add hid-alps kernel module to distribution to support Dell touchpad => Add hid-alps kernel module to support Dell touchpad
* jeu. 10 sept. 2020 14:00:00 tv <tv> 5.8.8-1.mga8 + Revision: 1624065 - 5.7.8 + ghibo <ghibo> - Add HID Alps module (for bug #27254) HID Alps has landed in our Mageia Kernel 5.8.8-1.mga8 version. @Wolf, Could you have the possibility to test this by installing this update in Cauldron? If this version is not installed, please use M8 Beta1 iso?
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
@Aurelien, first thanks for supporting me to establish a test environment - I did d/l the M8 Beta 1 ISO and created a bootable USB with isodumper-qt together with a persistance partition that had to be formatted to ext4 and labeled "mgalive-persist" (f2fs did not work....). Furthermore I had to add the online repositories before I did execute the upgrade of the M8 Beta 1 from kernel 5.7.9 to 5.8.8. (oooof - seems pretty obvious as I write, but took several turns while trying...) After having accomplished that I was able to boot into the new kernel and I can confirm that hid-alps is loaded automatically and System Settings --> Input Devices -> Touchpad is recognizing the Touchpad device DLL07A8:01 044E:120B and is working as expected! Mouse wheel is scrolling as I want it to and touchpad as well! Thank you very much!!!! Wolf
This sounds very good!
it's also coming to mga7 with 5.9.11-3.mga7 (or newer)
5.10.8-2.mga7 landed in M7. Fixed.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED