Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 375471
Dell touchpad not detected as touchpad
Last modified: 2007-12-05 15:43:45 EST
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...)
patch queued for next kernel update.
I can also confirm this bug with kernel 2.23.1-49 on my Dell Vostro 1400 with FC8 and all updates installed.
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.
In 2.6.23.8-62