From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seth Forshee Subject: Re: ALPS touchpad recognized as Generic Wheel Mouse Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:47:59 -0600 Message-ID: <20111121144759.GB6736@thinkpad-t410> References: <4EC95D0B.4070407@yahoo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:57152 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323Ab1KUOsC (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:48:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EC95D0B.4070407@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Felix Zweig Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 09:03:23PM +0100, Felix Zweig wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The following refers to the same Touchpad as in bug #15893 (ALPS in an > Acer Aspire 532h). > > The device is recognized as "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as > /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5" instead of a touchpad; at > least since Linux 3.0 (and up to 3.2-rc2). > > As one result, middle mouse button emulation doesn't work. IIRC, evdev > disabled it for non-touchpad inputs a while ago. > > Is there a way to have the device recognized correctly as a touchpad (as > it used to be a few versions earlier, unfortunately I can't remember > which versions worked). I sent some patches that should be in 3.3 that will get your touchpad working, with the exception of multitouch (the 532h is one of the machines I used to develop the patches). You can find the patches in the following locations if you'd like to give them a try. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/433 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git