I have the same issue with a new Dell Latitude E5520 that I bought about a month ago. Touchpad is recognized as a PS/2 Mouse, so I don't have a "Touchpad" setting under Mouse in System Settings (kubuntu natty) and can't access any touchpad features, although vertical scrolling does work.
/proc/bus/input/devices: -------------------------------------------- I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=7326 N: Name="ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event7 B: PROP=0 B: EV=7 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103 /var/log/Xorg.0.log: ----------------------------------- [ 9.115] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint (/dev/input/event7) [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall" [ 9.115] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint' [ 9.115] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Device: "/dev/input/event7" [ 9.115] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons [ 9.115] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found scroll wheel(s) [ 9.115] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found relative axes [ 9.115] (--) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found x and y relative axes [ 9.115] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Configuring as mouse [ 9.115] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Adding scrollwheel support [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [ 9.115] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7/event7" [ 9.115] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" (type: MOUSE) [ 9.115] (II) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: initialized for relative axes. [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration profile 0 [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 9.115] (**) ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 9.115] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint (/dev/input/mouse0) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760142 Title: Dell 15R : ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Configuring as mouse To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760142/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
