[SOLVED] Alps touchpad...

[PavedWave]

Hello all,

Heres my issue, and I've searched it a lot, seems to be a common problem with some variation but can't find a solution..
It has been the same for all linux distros I've tried (ubuntu, backtrack, fedora.. a few others)

The touchpad is recognized as a ps/2 mouse, there is no touchpad settings in the options..

It works perfectly well except the scrolling, scrolls down fine, but scrolling up will either ecroll down or have the effect of pressing the end button.

It would be nice to have full functionalit with two-finger etc... but I'd be happy for a simpler solution to fix the scrolling.

Using an acer 3820..

[bike_head]

Bug 590880. It's been on the books for a while, but there is a working patch available. You can patch the kernel yourself or wait for it to appear upstream and then get backported to FC16.

[PavedWave]

Nevermind, figured it out, works good. Two finger scrolling doesnt actually work but side scrolling works properly now.

[dypang]

Originally Posted by PavedWave

Nevermind, figured it out, works good. Two finger scrolling doesnt actually work but side scrolling works properly now.

Thanks for info! but how did you figure it out?

[PavedWave]

Download the custom kernel from this source, (not sure if this is the right way, forgot the command to enter it into yum, but this is the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/)

file name is "simonecaronni.repo"

Contents:

[simonecaronni]
name=alps drive bultin Kernel
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://www.serjux.com/simonecaronni/repo/$releasever/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=3d
gpgkey=http://www.serjux.com/simonecaronni/RPM-GPG-KEY-slaanesh
gpgcheck=0

[Mariusz W]

Originally Posted by PavedWave

Heres my issue, and I've searched it a lot, seems to be a common problem with some variation but can't find a solution..
It has been the same for all linux distros I've tried (ubuntu, backtrack, fedora.. a few others)

The touchpad is recognized as a ps/2 mouse, there is no touchpad settings in the options...

I experienced exactly the same problem with an ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad on Asus U46E. For me the problem was fixed in the latest kernel that appeared yesterday in the Fedora Updates repository. Update to the latest kernel and report back.