I'll just add a small confirmation that for me, this is fixed in the latest Lucid (kernel 2.6.32-19-generic). (I only noticed this because the scrollbar stopped working, but now I'll hopefully be able to fix this myself). In dmesg, I now get:
[ 16.205528] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11 Thanks! -- Touchpad not recognized on Dell Inspiron 1420 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs