Comment 87 for bug 380126

Hello you all

This post to tell that I tested the patch yesterday.
Good news! now I have a fully fonctionnal synaptics touchpad on my Vostro V13

I applied the patch on a 2.6.32 kernel
I am using Linux Mint LMDE, debian based on testing branch.

Now my synaptics touchpad is well recognized on gpointing-device-settings, and all options seems to work (horizontal, vertical and circle scrolling, lock of the pad when typing on the keyboard, ...)

I followed this tutorial (in french, sorry) :
http://ashgenesis.developpez.com/linux/kernel-debian/

so to give a summary of what I did, for other to test :
I modified my /etc/apt/source.list to include sources :
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

then I download linux-source-2.6.32

I followed first steps, ie :
cd /usr/src
debian:/usr/src# tar -xvjf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2
debian:/usr/src# ln -s linux-source-2.6.32 linux
debian:/usr/src# cp /boot/config-‘uname -r‘ /usr/src/linux/.config

then I downloaded the above patch in the /usr/src directory, named it v13.patch and applied it :
debian:/usr/src#cd linux
debian:/usr/src/linux#patch -p1 < ../V13.patch

once applied, i launched last line of the tutorial to build the kernel (debian style) :
debian:/usr/src/linux#make-kpkg --append-to-version "-v13" --initrd buildpackage --config menuconfig

this last line generated a .deb I installed :
debian:/usr/src/linux#dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.32-flo_2.6.32-v13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

After a reboot, with no xorg.conf specific config file on /etc/X11, with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed, my synaptics touchpad now works on my Vostro V13.

Many thanks to the author of the patch!
Very happy to get back a fully functionnal touchpad on my V13

(hoping this will be included in future kernel releases)

and btw,... Happy new year!!