[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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....

Paul - I did copy your file and loaded the module but it failed to
work - in fact it even stopped the touchpad cursor movement
altogether!

I returned to the psmouse-elantech package from AUR, built the package
and then installed it with pacman -U - and hey presto it gives the
correct behaviour in terms of touchpad tapping, as well as vertical
scrolling - it will need to be rebuilt each time there is a new kernel
until kernel version 3.3 is released but at least I now have a working
touchpad on the laptop so I can live with the small inconvenience of
rebuilding the module periodically in the interim.

Thanks for the input.
-- 
mike c