Bug 846263 - Touchpad not detected as touchpad on Dell Precision 4700
Summary: Touchpad not detected as touchpad on Dell Precision 4700
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 812111
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-07 09:39 UTC by Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho)
Modified: 2012-08-07 14:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 14:00:53 UTC
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Description Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2012-08-07 09:39:42 UTC 
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The touchpad is detected as normal PS/2 Generic mouse. I have also tried with rawhide which has a kernel 3.6.x rc1 and it has the same problem.


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Comment 1 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2012-08-07 09:40:18 UTC 
Please lemme know if you need some specific debug information.
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-08-07 14:00:53 UTC 
I believe this machine uses a newer hardware revision of the ALPS touchpad.  That has a different protocol that the Linux driver does not support yet.  We're tracking this in bug 812111

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 812111 ***
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