Bug 375471

Summary:	Dell touchpad not detected as touchpad
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jacob Masaki <jtmasaki>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jacob Masaki 2007-11-11 05:09:53 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component Kernel 2.23.1-49:


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 8 + Updates
2. Find that xorg won't load the "synaptics" driver because it thinks the
touchpad can't use synaptics.  
  
Actual results:
Touchpad is thought to be a normal mouse.  

Expected results:
Touchpad is though to be a touchpad, so scrolling works and such.  

Additional info:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/184 Talks about a possible fix, but I haven't
tried it, as I've never compiled a kernel before, and am worried I will render
my laptop unbootable.  

I also looked at the Ubuntu source (Ubuntu works with the touchpad) and they
appear to have applied this patch in the alps.c (and a couple others, which I
hope are unrelated...)

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-12 22:28:16 UTC

patch queued for next kernel update.

Comment 2 Aniket 2007-11-17 10:33:00 UTC

I can also confirm this bug with kernel 2.23.1-49 on my Dell Vostro 1400 with 
FC8 and all updates installed.

Comment 3 Simon Perry 2007-11-19 22:19:48 UTC

Can confirm that trackpad scrolling etc for Dell Inspiron 1420 now works with
kernel 2.6.23.1-58 (was not working with 2.6.23.1-49).

Some of the numbers for the synaptics driver options in xorg.conf have to be
tweaked quite a bit to get it usable, but once that's done it works ok.

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-21 19:30:59 UTC

In 2.6.23.8-62