[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> 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 my touchpad to the kernel
> for the past few releases:
> http://giddie.homeip.net/alps.patch
>
> If you want it, here is a pre-built 64-bit kernel module:
> http://giddie.homeip.net/psmouse.ko
>
> You can keep it anywhere you want, and just "rmmod psmouse", and "insmod
> psmouse.ko".  I'm pretty sure this will do the trick for you.
>
> Paul

Thanks Paul - I will certainly give your pre-built module a shot later
today.... and will post back to say if it works for me....

-- 
mike c