Re: alps.c patch for Dell E5410?

[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>]

On 04/20/2011 04:48 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've got an E5410 on which I'm trying to get the touchpad working
> properly. I'm running Fedora 14 with 2.6.35 and by default it's just
> recognized as a mouse.
> 
> I found a patch on the web at:
> https://confluence.nau.edu/display/~cmg238@nau.edu/Recognize+ALPS+Touchpad+on+Dell+E6510+in+Ubuntu
> 
> It appears similar (but not identical) to the patch that was added for
> the HP Pavilion dm3 but then backed out.
> 
> With the patch applied, the kernel appears to recognize it as a
> DualPoint Stick and a DualPoint Touchpad.  On this particular machine
> the stick doesn't seem to be actually wired up, but the trackpad looks
> visually identical to the E6510.
> 
> However, even after it was recognized I haven't yet been able to get
> scrolling to work, and "synclient -m 100" doesn't give anything
> useful--but various comments have led me to wonder if it actually should
> at this point.
> 
> So what's the deal here?  Is someone working on getting full support for
> these things?  Should "synclient -m 100" work?

I don't personally have much news to tell you. I don't have the
hardware, and I've been busy with other work. I won't be able to help
out here.

-- Chase