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  2. Comment #141

Comment 141 for bug 550625

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Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard) wrote : Re: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

Andrew Skalski <email address hidden> writes:

> I applied the Dell patch (I had to modify it somewhat to make it apply
> cleanly), and verified that it successfully enables vertical scrolling.
> It still doesn't support syndaemon, but it's a big improvement from what
> we had before. Attached is a 64-bit psmouse.ko that I built against
> 2.6.32-24-generic.

I tested it by rmmod'ing psmouse and insmod'ing the psmouse.ko file you
attached. It works well here, touchpad scrolling is enabled.

[10506.261681] alps.c: Enabled hardware quirk, falling back to psmouse-core
[10506.274889] input: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input16

(Dell Latitude E6510)