Comment 570 for bug 550625

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote : Re: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 12:50:02PM -0000, Steven wrote:
> Hi @seth,
>
> First off, thanks for the patch, it works like a charm on my DELL
> Latitude E6510.
>
> I just acquired a Dell Precision M6400. The default Mouse and Touchpad
> settings don't give me the possibility to deactivate the touchapd
> alltogether, so I installed your patch from comment #492. But it does
> not seem to install correctly: no gpointing-device-settings binary is
> available...

Steven: The changes I worked on only add support for a subset of Dell
hardware, albeit a fairly large subset. If you have a model that isn't
supported, I'd suggest you check and see if anyone has opened a bug
specific to your model already, and if not file a new bug.