Hi Seth,
many thanks for your second release. It seems that my problems with
being stuck in the suspend mode are now history! Great! It all works now
like a charm (on dell latitude e5510, natty 64-bit). I additionally sent
you an email with my alps-reg-dump output and max ABS_XY values.
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Hi Seth,
I'm quite happy with your driver. As long as it works, all is wonderful.
Unfortunately, however, at times it won't work after a reboot (touchpad
not recognized -- no reaction of mouse cursor). The only thing that
helps then (at least most of the times - sometimes I have to do it a few
Additional note: When the touchpad's not recognized by Ubuntu Oneiric,
it doesn't work with Win7 either.
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:54:40PM -, Hemanti wrote:
Hi Seth,
I'm quite happy with your driver. As long as it works, all is wonderful.
Unfortunately, however, at times it won't work after a reboot (touchpad
not recognized -- no reaction of mouse cursor). The only thing that
helps then
Hi Seth,
Version 0.2 worked fine.
Laptop: Dell Latitude E5410
Edge scroll works. Disable touchpad while typing works.
I did have to enable scrolling via gpointing-device-settings, just standard
gnome mouse settings didn't seem to work.
I also noticed that xinput list is reporting a 'DualPoint
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 04:10:03PM -, César Izurieta wrote:
Hi Seth, thanks a lot for the patches. On my computer (Dell Inspiron
N5110, opensuse 11.4 kernel 3.0.4, just touchpad, no trackstick) it's
working well. Just 3 problems:
1. When leaving my finger over the touchpad without
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:04:18AM -, rjmackay wrote:
Is it useful to send you dmesg output and reg-dump output too?
dmesg isn't necessary, but the alps-reg-dump output along with the
maximum ABS_X and ABS_Y values would be helpful. Thanks!
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Some interesting fact about the driver performance when additional
monitors are added:
(system: Dell Latitude E6520, ubuntu 11.04, stick and touchpad):
When I changed the screen resolution from 1920x1080 to one big screen of
two monitors (1920x1080 as laptop screen and connected through Matrox
Seth, I couldn't run the alps-reg-dump on my vostro 3550, ubuntu 11.04:
$ ./alps-reg-dump
bash: ./alps-reg-dump: cannot execute binary file
$ sudo ./alps-reg-dump
./alps-reg-dump: 1: ELF: not found
./alps-reg-dump: 2: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
The 0.2 driver works fine
Thank you for this driver - it works nice on my Dell E6410. Tested
vertical/horizontal scrolling and it works fine. 2 fingers scrolling
seems to be non functional but everything else works fine. Also my
machine completely hanged when i tried to do rmmod psmouse using an
old driver, but it is not
Forgot to add driver info (in case if you need it):
samm@samm-dell:~$ dmesg |grep -i alps
[ 178.318326] alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
[ 178.338028] alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 64
[ 178.373725] alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
[ 178.393156] alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 64
[ 178.505635] alps.c: trackstick E7
The driver works fine on my DELL Latitude E6510. Will it be in Ubuntu
11.10?
cribari@darwin:~$ dmesg |grep -i alps
[5.566571] alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
[5.585184] alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 64
[5.655899] alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
[5.742175] alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 64
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:49:24AM -, Francisco Cribari wrote:
The driver works fine on my DELL Latitude E6510. Will it be in Ubuntu
11.10?
11.10 is already at feature freeze, meaning only bug fixes from now
until release. The dkms package should continue working just fine though
until the
Downloaded the .deb packages, did a sudo dpkg -i, but the following error
message returned:
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.35-30-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 2.6.35-30-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on
Hi Seth, thanks a lot for the patches. On my computer (Dell Inspiron
N5110, opensuse 11.4 kernel 3.0.4, just touchpad, no trackstick) it's
working well. Just 3 problems:
1. When leaving my finger over the touchpad without movement, the cursor
moves erratically ±1 pixel (but stays in the same
Here are my maximum X and Y:
ABS_X=1908
ABS_Y=1329
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Seth's patch version 0.2 works as advertised (everything but multitouch)
on my HP dm1z (E7 report: 73 02 64). Thanks very much for your work!
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Two reboots later, this morning it works again. Strange, but fine. ;-)
I'll dmesg when it doesn't.
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Hi,
Firstly, many-many thanks to Seth for a very nice work!
My system:
Dell Latitude Laptop E6520
ubuntu 11.04
@aa-i7:~$ uname -a
Linux aa-i7 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Dual touchpad with the stick
I have installed the driver
aa-hcl: Thanks for testing. I'm glad the driver is working for you.
If choosing two-finger scrolling then the scrolling does not work at
all.
Yes, that's because of the missing multitouch support that I mentioned.
I'm working on that now.
I also compared the touchpad and stick performance
Just wanted to say thanks. This latest driver is working as advertised
(edgle scrolling both vert and horz but no 2 finger scrolling). It
makes the touch pad much more usable.
FYI system info - Toshiba Satellite R845-S80
Looking forward to 2-finger scrolling
FYI: after installing at first
Hi everyone, my problem was that the touchpad was recognized and showed
up in mouse settings and gpointing devices as AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint
(additionally to a PS/2 mouse I hadn't even connected), but still I
wasn't able to scroll (neither edge nor 2-finger ) no matter if I
switched that setting
I'm experiencing the same problem as LiKwiiD now. The touchpad is
working in no OS anymore (live USB, Win7, Oneiric, freshly installed
Natty). Various shutdowns do not help as it doesn't to reinstall Natty
on my hard drive (where there was Oneiric before). How can I reactivate
it? Even in Windows,
Hemanti: I think the driver failed for you because your machine doesn't
have a trackstick. From there your touchpad was probably left in a bad
state. I think I have both of these fixed for the next update, but it's
strange that shutdown doesn't clear up the symptoms. Have you tried
turning off the
Thank you Seth! Removing the battery worked. Booting into the freshly
installed Natty, the touchpad worked as before. After booting the live
usb (which I installed and removed your driver before) - where the
touchpad didn't work - it worked in no OS again. So I just took out the
battery again, and
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:07:14PM -, Hemanti wrote:
$ sudo ./alps-reg-dump
Error: Could not locate serio mouse
That's odd -- what output do you get from the following:
for f in /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio*/description; do
echo -n ${f}:
cat $f
done
$ sudo input-events 10
Good to hear about that new version. :) In the meantime, I have some
more output for you:
$ for f in /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio*/description; do
echo -n ${f}:
cat $f
done
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/description: i8042 KBD port
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/description: i8042
Since kernel.org is down, including their bugzilla, can someone post a
patch file, rather then an Ubuntu package? That would be much
appreciated.
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I've uploaded a new version of the driver, available at:
http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.2
/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.2_all.deb
(Max: you can find patches in the same directory as the deb package,
which is true for the previous version as well.)
What's new in this
Seth I've been holding out trying the driver since I read that you were
coming out with a newer one, I have a Acer Timelinex 1830T series, I see you
also have an acer, do you think this new version is the one to try with us
that do not have the trackstick? If so I will try it tonight and see what
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:08:44PM -, bishoptf wrote:
Seth I've been holding out trying the driver since I read that you were
coming out with a newer one, I have a Acer Timelinex 1830T series, I see you
also have an acer, do you think this new version is the one to try with us
that do not
for f in /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio*/description; do
echo -n ${f}:
cat $f
done
says the same as before.
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Yes!!! It works. :) Thank you Seth!
Well, at least edge scrolling works. Unfortunately, disabling the
touchpad while typing and, as you said, two-finger-scroll still doesn't
work. However, I'm sure you'll manage that, as well. Again: good job! :)
y value: 1325
x value: 1865
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I rebooted and now the touchpad doesn't work anymore at all. lsinput
doesn't list it anymore. Even reinstalling didn't work. :(
I'll go to bed now and am happy to try your solutions tomorrow.
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Hello Seth,
Great work, I just compiled my kernel with your patches and it works great.
This is on a Sony VAIO VPC-F11M1E.
dmesg | grep -i alps (If you want the full dmesg or any other log please tell
me so I can send them to you)
[ 12.601378] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as
Hemanti: Please send me the output of the dmesg command when the
touchpad isn't working for you.
George: In the current verions there's no multitouch for v3 or v4.
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I tried the newly posted alps-reg-dump above and got an endless string
of output to the terminal. I had to ctrl-c to end it. Note I also
totally lost support for the trackpad. end of out and xpinut --list
below xpint is taken after running apls-reg-dump obvoisly, note how the
trackpad is gone.
Bob: It will finish, it just takes a while to complete. Yours wasn't
even halfway done :)
You want to capture the output to a file, i.e. 'alps-reg-dump reg-
dump.txt'. If you let it run to completion it will restore your touchpad
functionality, but if you interrupt it your touchpad will fail to
Ok I let it run to end and attached the resulting output.
FYI it took over 20 min to run to finsh
Bob
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Seth Forshee
seth.fors...@canonical.comwrote:
Bob: It will finish, it just takes a while to complete. Yours wasn't
even halfway done :)
You want to capture
I've posted a new version of alps-reg-dump that should get it working
with more touchpads. If the previous version didn't work for you, please
give this one a try and email me your output (seth dot forshee at
canonical dot com).
Executable:
I've had the same issue as LiKwiiD.
I installed the psmouse-alps-dkms and couldn't get it to work.
sudo rmmod psmouse and sudo modprobe psmouse hung the system. On reboot the
mouse wasn't detected.
After purging the package, but the touchpad is still not usable, it's not
appearing at all in
I had the same problem as LiKwiiD, on my Dell Vostro 3550, ubuntu 11.04.
LiKwiiD, I could fix the mouse doing:
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
then reboot.
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Doing a restart, was not enough to reset the touchpad to be useable in another
OS. I needed to do a complete shutdown and then I was able to use it in Win7.
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Fails to build on Maverick Meerkat: (make.log attached).
@Seth can you help me troubleshoot the patch?
sudo dpkg -i psmouse-alps-dkms_0.1_all.deb
Unpacking psmouse-alps-dkms ...
Setting up psmouse-alps-dkms (0.1) ...
Loading new psmouse-alps-0.1 DKMS files...
Loading tarball for module:
Hi Seth, I tried your psmouse-alps-dkms. It didnt work in either case
(reboot or the sudo rmmod psmouse and sudo modprobe psmouse. The
touchpad was completely unusable.
I uninstalled your package and the touchpad is still unusable. An
external mouse via USB works fine.
Computer: Dell N5040
I have more comments (again on Dell E6410).
1. Based on offlist suggestion I've tried to use
xinput --set-prop device-corresponding-to-trackstick Device Accel Constant
Deceleration number around 2
I could reduce speed of trackstick, but still find it hard to hit some targets.
It looks like
Thanks to everyone who has tested the patch! One note -- when you include the
dmesg output please don't just grep for alps, as some of the messages of
interest don't contain that string.
A few of things are becoming clear. First, there are at least a couple of
different versions of the touchpads
I have something more to report:
- For reasons unknown, this driver appear to have fixed hang-on-suspend I was
experiencing before, and
- After resume, the one-finger tap still generated left click, even though I
have disabled that behaviour.
How would I go about troubleshooting the last
Thank you, Seth for the great work! I'm really looking forward to using your
patch. Unfortunately, it doesn't build on my Dell Latitude E6410. Below, you
will find the dpkg output and the dkms make log. I hope that helps.
Thank you again!
dpkg output:
Richte psmouse-alps-dkms ein (0.1) ...
Nice! Absolutely nice! You made me to a happy man. I can see my ALPS as:
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=11
florian, you might need to upgrade your kernel to 3.0.* for it to work.
The easiest way is to upgrade to oneiric, but you might want to wait
until the final version comes out. Alternativly, you could just upgrade
the kernel and try out the patch.
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Thanks for this great patch, Seth! The actual patch works perfect for my
setup (Dell latitude E5510, ubuntu natty, 2.6.38-11-generic).
Though, I took notice of Vladimirs observations regarding suspend mode
(comment #344). Unfortunately when your module is installed I got now
and then hung in
For those of you experiencing a hang after 'sudo rmmod psmouse': this is
most probably unrelated to the new DKMS module (you are _removing_ the
currently in-use module, so it should not matter at all if there is a
different module available). Easy way to validate: boot the system with
the standard
Sony Vaio Vpc-sb1c5e
No inputs possible after trying to remove thw module in a running natty
system.
Even recovery mode doesnt help anymore=-O
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I've been working on changes aimed at providing proper support for these
touchpads. I've posted a dkms package with my changes for testing, and
I'd appreciate it if you all could test and provide your feedback. The
package is available at:
Seth,
It works!! Thank you so much!
Note to testers: in order for changes to take effect, you should also
change the configuration under the mouse touchpad window in Ubuntu.
What works:
Dell E6410, running Ubuntu Oneiric beta 1.
two-finger scrolling, vertical + horizontal scrolling,
Seth,
this is fantastic development. I've tried on Dell E6410, Kubuntu 11.04. I could
disable tap, at last, and I could also scroll
with two fingers. I am mostly a trackstick user, and that has some problems --
namely, after reboot trackstick was *way* too sensitive and even hitting
buttons
@Seth E6520.. seems to work fairly well so far, only thing I'm noticing
is that it seems to be much more sensitive - IE, if I am holding my
finger still on the touchpad, the pointer twitches around, which it
didn't with the psmouse driver. Can actually make it harder to click on
stuff. ;) That
I can confirm the same behaviour as Vladimir. Testing on a Dell E6410
with Ubuntu 11.04. Also when I scroll with two fingers, i will
unintentionally press a right click, which can be annoying.
Thanks,
Matey
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I've tried it on Dell N5110 with the Alps touchpad and upon running rmmod
modprobe Ubuntu froze and I had to reboot. Once it rebooted, there was a
cursor, but I couldn't move it. I plugged in a USB mouse and tried to adjust
settings under the Pointing/Mouse window, but I couldn't see any entry for
Seth,
I'm running your DKMS module on a Sony Vaio EB11 and it makes the
scrolling work again, though I get this in dmesg:
[ 1820.881662] alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
[ 1820.909803] alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 64
[ 1820.933181] alps.c: unknown response while entering command mode: 88 07 8a
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:09:30PM -, Nate Carlson wrote:
@Seth E6520.. seems to work fairly well so far, only thing I'm noticing
is that it seems to be much more sensitive - IE, if I am holding my
finger still on the touchpad, the pointer twitches around, which it
didn't with the psmouse
Tested Oneiric Beta 1 with this dkms package on a Dell Latitude E4310.
Two-finger scrolling as well as horizontal and vertical edge scrolling
are working well.
I'm also seeing the same issues as in comment #332...the trackstick is
way more sensitive than it used to be.
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Hi again Seth,
I want to ask you if there is a way to disable the right click? I
noticed that if I double click in the middle of the touchpad with two
fingers, it results in a right-click. I think that's why sometimes when
scrolling with 2 fingers I see a right click. Unfortunately, I couldn't
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Seth Forshee wrote:
I assume you're using natty or earlier? I haven't noticed this in
oneiric, but I know the xorg synaptics driver has some extra filtering
in oneiric that helps mask this kind of jitter.
Nailed it on the head. I'm on Natty.
For now, had to revert back
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Stan Angeloff wrote:
I've tried it on Dell N5110 with the Alps touchpad and upon running rmmod
modprobe Ubuntu froze and I had to reboot.
My system locked up when removing psmouse as well.. and apparently
corrupted the modules table and (somehow) the nvidia module. I'm
:( looks like that my laptop is not supported...
Dell Inspirion N5110 ... aka Dell 15R
you are the pro, but ImExPS looks like an external mouse... I HAD an
external mouse plugged in, but for the test I pluged out the mouse
before the restart
I tried removing and reinstalling .deb file...
Good work, Seth!
Dell Latitude E6520, Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64 here. Installing psmouse-alps-
dkms_0.1_all.deb returned the Touchpad preferences and two-finger
scrolling works well.
My experience mirrors that of several others:
* Running sudo rmmod psmouse; sudo modprobe psmouse froze my system and
My Sony Vaio VPCEE3WFX is having this issue. The ALPS touchpad is
recognized in the xlist and the touchpad tab shows up in the mouse
options. There is no vertical or horizontal scrolling, and the two
finger scroll is not functioning either. The proto=imps does not work.
I´m looking forward to a
@henk (comment #225)
encountered errors installing your package, now i cannot uninstall it!
any suggestions?
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One of the last kernel updates for oneiric seems to have changed
something: The last time I looked at my dmesg my touchpad was recognized
as a touchpad. Now it is recognized by the kernel as a generic PS/2
wheel mouse again.
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Is bug 760142 not a duplicate or an affiliate?
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More:
http://budts.be/weblog/2010/12/dell-latitude-e6510-screen-and-touchpad
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660
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May a post a reminder that this bug is strictly about a jockey problem?
That is, when jockey is reporting the NVIDIA driver is not being used,
but otherwise there is no other graphical problem. This other type of
problems may likely get unattended if posted in this bug report, you
should look
Sorry, ignore last post, posted in the wrong bug report...
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Still having the issue too in Ubuntu 11.04 on a Dell Latitude E6510 with Intel
I7 proc:
uname -a:
Linux rd-25 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/issue:
Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l
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