Comment 13 for bug 270643

Mackenzie and Matteo: thank you so much for helping here! I believe we are getting close!!!

Unfortunately, I am not very experienced, Mackenzie. Which daily build are you referring to? Please bare in mind that my system has an Intel NIC which is very likely affected by the e1000e problem, so that I am hesitant to try any of the 2.6.27 kernels at present.
However, there is very good news: I tried the patch that Matteo Collina suggested (thanks so much Matteo for finding this one!!!). I compiled a Hardy kernel, and it works! ALPS touchpad is correctly recognized. (it is listed in /proc/bus/input/devices). Also, after mapping the correct event in xorg.conf, and enabling SHMConfig, I am able to use synclient to change many touchpad settings. I successfully adjusted MinSpeed, MaxSpeed, AccelFactor. Vert and Horiz. scroll are working fine (after finding good numbers for RightEdge and BottomEdge).

However, since I am new at kernel compiling, I also had some problems. Currently my system is running 2.6.24-21. The kernel I had compiled turned out to be a customized version of 2.6.24-3. The wireless card and NIC were not recognized, as in earlier Hardy versions (before 8.04.1). What did go wrong? Did I not install the correct source packages? I would really like to get this working in Hardy. Can anyone help me? I believe I am very close. The only thing I need to do is apply the patch to the most recent version of Hardy.