Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc1

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 16:07, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, the big merges after 2.6.10 are hopefully over, and 2.6.11-rc1 is out 
> > there.
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> > Peter Osterlund:
> >   o input: Add ALPS touchpad driver, driver by Neil Brown, Peter
> >     Osterlund and Dmitry Torokhov, some fixes by Vojtech Pavlik.
> 
> 2.6.11-rc1 broke my ALPS touchpad.  I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, and
> previously, I was patching my kernels with the patch from 
> 
> Message-Id: <200407110045.08208.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
> Subject: [RFT/PATCH 2.6] ALPS touchpad driver
> 
> and this worked fine.  I had the scroll zones and tapping, and so on,
> working fine, and dmesg included indications that the Alps was detected:
> 
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
> Jan 19 10:09:40 athena input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> 
> 

Hi,

Could you please try this patch by Peter Osterlund:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110513688110246&q=raw

It looks like Kensington and ALPS hate each other.

-- 
Dmitry