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ALPS GlidePoint touchpad recognized as PS/2 Generic !
I've Dell N5110 laptop with ALPS GlidePoint touchpad , The touchpad does only
three things, Move , right click and left click , no scrolling and no multi
touch just like any PS/2 Generic mouse
Kernel version:
3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64
Additional info:
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event5
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I've seen some people says it worked with them on laster versions of kernel
when psmouse module was regular module
DubelBoom
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April 27th, 2012 10:00
it partly works because you do get the touchpad tab, i just don't get why it doesn't work from here.
i sent an email to ALPS, but the didn't answer. (it was about two weeks ago!)
DubelBoom
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April 27th, 2012 10:00
1. Download and install this: dl.dropbox.com/.../psm...s_0.10_all.deb
2. open terminal and write:
cd /usr/src/psmouse-alps-0.10/src
3. Now write:
sudo gedit alps.c
4. At the file look for the /* Dell Vostro 1400 */ line, and above it you'll see 0x73 , 0x02 , 0x50, replace the 0x02 with 0x03 and save.
5. At the terminal, make sure your still at "/usr/src/psmouse-alps-0.10/src" and write:
sudo dkms add -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
6. Write:
sudo dkms build -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
7. Write:
sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
Now reboot, open the terminal again and write "xinput list", you'll see "Alps/PS2 Alps GlidePoint".
2 finger scrolling, disable/enable touchpad etc. wont work....
egydev
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April 27th, 2012 10:00
:D , from kernel 3 & psmouse is part of kernel so this is very ooold and Yes it's not going to work
egydev
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April 27th, 2012 11:00
I tried tof figure out the problem , each touch pad has IRQ numbers which identitifies them
the alps driver should be able to detect all kind of tochpad (ie. the complete specifications for each one is only known by manufuturer which is very smart enough to hide theses specification from ALIENS who may steel our valuable earth technologies and invade us)
also because kernel developers are verrrrrrry lazy they merged psmouse into kernel to make our life worth on linux
DubelBoom
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April 27th, 2012 13:00
so i guess well need to wait for maybe, sometime, one day ALPS will develop a driver?
EDIT: do you know how to COMPLETELY disable the touchpad? ill just use a wireless mouse when ill go away from my desk.
egydev
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April 27th, 2012 16:00
no , some people keep trying , try and error , but I don't know really how to do that
nope :(
DubelBoom
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April 28th, 2012 09:00
I don't get why they're not releasing an official driver.
Anyway, after the command "sudo modprobe -r psmouse" the touch pad doesn't work any more, and there's no "PS/2 Generic Mouse" or "ALPS GlidePoint" after writing "xinput list" :)