Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?

2012-07-27 Thread dturvene
Coming late the discussion, responses inline - Dave On 07/27/2012 01:17 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: Seth Forshee writes: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:18:51PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: Recently I took shipment of a Dell Latitude E6430 (supposedly "certified" by Canonical). Sadly, out of the box the mu

Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?

2012-08-17 Thread dturvene
On 08/16/2012 01:04 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: Ben Gamari writes: snip Hopefully I'll find some more time in the next few days to figure out the last few bits (primarily how multitouch events work). I wouldn't be sad if someone finished the task for me, however. Success! As it turns out, the proc

Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?

2012-09-08 Thread dturvene
On 08/17/2012 01:04 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: dturvene writes: Ben - I tried your fix on a Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 (I15R). It did not work. Things I noticed: 1) Consistent with prior observations, the touchpad E7 signature for it is: 0x73 0x03 0x50, different than yours on the E6230. Alright

Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?

2012-09-15 Thread dturvene
On 09/08/2012 08:51 AM, dturvene wrote: On 08/17/2012 01:04 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: dturvene writes: Ben - I tried your fix on a Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 (I15R). It did not work. Things I noticed: 1) Consistent with prior observations, the touchpad E7 signature for it is: 0x73 0x03 0x50

Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?

2012-09-30 Thread dturvene
On 09/29/2012 05:55 AM, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: Hey hey, any news about this? Regards. There's been a good bit of progress on this, and testing is ongoing. For current status see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 I have something to work on this week but w

ACPI and the psmouse alps driver

2013-01-25 Thread dturvene
While I'm thinking of it, in the my last alps driver dkms, I put in an ACPI interface to uniquely detect the touchpad type. After spending a good couple of days figuring out the ACPI spec and this mysterious _HID (hardware id) and _CID (compatibility id) as it relates to how ALPS identifies it

Question about psmouse alps driver patches

2013-01-25 Thread dturvene
I submitted normalized patches to Canonical Ubuntu in October for the alps psmouse touchpad. The thread is long and confusing at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 Since then, I have maintained a psmouse dlkm that provides alps support for a number of new systems, pri

+1 for Cernekee Input: ALPS patchset

2013-02-11 Thread dturvene
I have rebased my psmouse touchpad efforts to use the Cernekee 14-part patchset labelled with a prefix of "Input: ALPS". Along with stabilizing a popular variant of the ALPS touchpad, the patchset cleans-up/refactors the code and makes it more flexible. In addition it makes the code portable a