Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.02.2012 15:30, schrieb Caio Geraldi Conechoni: >> You could, just like i'm doing, hold kernel upgrades so you don't need to >> rebuild the package every time... Just a suggestion :) > > You can put the module to > /lib/modules/extramod

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2012 15:30, schrieb Caio Geraldi Conechoni: > You could, just like i'm doing, hold kernel upgrades so you don't need to > rebuild the package every time... Just a suggestion :) You can put the module to /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/ and then use it will all 3.2 versions. But it is

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-11 Thread Caio Geraldi Conechoni
You could, just like i'm doing, hold kernel upgrades so you don't need to rebuild the package every time... Just a suggestion :) On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 19:31, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, mike cloaked > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Paul Gideon Dann >

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> I have a Latitude E5520, and I suspect we have the same touchpad. >> >> This is the Kernel bug you'll be interested in: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I have a Latitude E5520, and I suspect we have the same touchpad. > > This is the Kernel bug you'll be interested in: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660 > > This is the patch I've been using to add support for

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Caio Geraldi Conechoni wrote: > I had similar problem with a Dell Inspiron n5110, Alps touchpad. I bought > it last october, and by then this psmouse-alps package didn't exist, so I > got vertical scrolling to work using this module instead: > > http://aur.archlin

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hi Mike, I have a Latitude E5520, and I suspect we have the same touchpad. This is the Kernel bug you'll be interested in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660 This is the patch I've been using to add support for my touchpad to the kernel for the past few releases: http://giddie.ho

Re: [arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-09 Thread Caio Geraldi Conechoni
I had similar problem with a Dell Inspiron n5110, Alps touchpad. I bought it last october, and by then this psmouse-alps package didn't exist, so I got vertical scrolling to work using this module instead: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51343 But now I'm using kernel 3.1.8 and psmouse-a

[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

2012-02-09 Thread mike cloaked
I am trying to get a laptop touchpad working properly with arch fully up to date as of today. The machine is a recent Dell Vostro and has an Alps touchpad. I can't get vertical scrolling to work in KDE, and the mouse cursor occasionally moves erratically. I have seen previous posts some time back