@libondom-0
My guess is this is another mutation of the ALPS touchpad. It clearly
is a new signature, which you added, which indicates new behavior: the
trackstick. There have been several new significant behaviors added to
the alps driver ("Rushmore" and "Dolphin").
The best I can recommend, not having this touchpad (and it's an n:m
mapping between Dell system and Alps touchpad), is to add code to the
driver to dump the trackstick changes and then try to reverse engineer
what the movement codes actually mean. See the
alps_process_packet_v1_v2 routine.
BTW, I experienced similar upheaval in the late 1980's as a customer to
a company called Newbridge. Its staff was turning over so quickly that
relative newbies were the sole support for some of their hardware and
just hacked it up to get it to work regardless of documentation or
compatibility. They released M$ drivers to support the new firmware but
Unix boxes (we were a SUN shop) were left hanging. Newbridge and SUN no
longer exist; I think this bodes poorly for ALPS.
Dave
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