Hi, I am running a new Dell Latituted E6530 and I ran into the problem described in this thread on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit.
Unfortunately, I have to report that Dave Turvene's kernel patch candidate did not work for me (or only in a limited way). However, Ben Gamari's patch did do the trick for me. So, Dave, I fear your patch does not work for the E6530 yet. I will gladly help you fixing this by testing other variants of your patch on my laptop or provide you with the output of some command or other. Just tell me what you need. In more detail: First I tried out Dave's patch. I followed exactly Harish's instructions of comment #242. This was only a partial success. Afterwards, I finally had a "Touchpad" tab under "System Settings->Mouse and Touchpad". However, neither edge-scrolling nor two-finger-scrolling worked. Although I could now enable both of these options, they did not actually _work_. It still simply wouldn't let me scroll, even though I enabled both options (in turn). I stress that my touchpad was correctly recognized: $ xinput -list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)] [snip] So, I decided to give Ben's patch a try. I followed exactly useResa's instructions posted at http://resalxh.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/ubuntu-12-04-lts-x64-the-next-step-getting-touchpad-working/ This worked like a charm! :-) I can now choose between edge-scrolling and two-finger scrolling. Both are working. It leaves a slightly bittersweet feeling though, since Dave's patch which will (or has?) be(en) submitted as a kernel patch candidate does not work. Can we fix this? I will help out as best I can. On a side-note, "horizontal two-finger scrolling" does not work with either Dave's or Ben's patch, but who needs that? ;-) (the pointer will jump around wildly if I try this with Ben's patch). Horizontal edge- scrolling does work with Ben's patch. In any case, kudos to Dave Turvene and Ben Gamari for their work, as well as Harish and useResa for their helpful comments! Cheers, Malte -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 Title: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/606238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
