Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc1

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-20T04:16:18Z

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.

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Dmitry