Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc1

[Daniel Gryniewicz <daniel@gryniewicz.com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:16 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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.
> 

That fixed it, thanks.  I hope this can make it in before 2.6.11 final,
but if it doesn't, I'll just patch it in.

Daniel