Comment 190 for bug 565543

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Seth Forshee <email address hidden>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:32:21PM -0000, Gav O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi, Seth. I have also installed your 0.9 driver on my VPCEB3J1E. I have
> > scrolling and tapping working, but 2-finger scrolling doesn't seem to
> > work. Is there any information I could send you to help troubleshoot
> > this problem?
>
> Two-finger scrolling doesn't work yet for some models, and it's a
> feature that will need to be added later on for those models. Thanks for
> offering to help, but there's no data needed at this time.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565543
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> Title:
> Alps touchpad detected as ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse(in VAIO E series)
> after the kernel upgrade
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
> Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu Netbook Remix:
> New
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Initially the ALPS touchpad was detected by the kernel but does not
> support horizontal and vertical support but after the kernel upgrade
> to 10.04 vertical scroll is working but horizontal scroll is not
> working. And the kernel is not detecting the ALPS touchpad and the cat
> /proc/bus/input/devices says it is a PS2 mouse ..
>
> This is seen in sony vaio E series in particular ...
>
> Also Bill in Comment #52 says
> Acer Aspire One 532h (Alps touchpad).
> I booted the distribution from a thumb drive, but once I installed from
> the thumb drive and updated Ubuntu (10.04), I lost the touchpad (works as a
> mouse) ..
> ---
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
> Package: linux (not installed)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=es_SV:es_SV.UTF-8:es:en_GB:en
> LANG=es_SV.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Tags: unity-2d natty
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-0300rc7-generic i686
> UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-05 (26 days ago)
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare
> vboxusers video
> ---
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
> Package: linux (not installed)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=es_SV:es_SV.UTF-8:es:en_GB:en
> LANG=es_SV.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Tags: unity-2d natty
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-0300rc7-generic i686
> UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-05 (26 days ago)
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare
> vboxusers video
>
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Seth Forshee ,

Your driver fixed my touchpad problem in ubuntu 11.04.
But after installing installing fresh ubuntu 11.10, the same comes
again...:(
My question is, can i use the same driver here in ubuntu 11.10 also..?

Thanks in advance..

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