Bug#323593: linux-source-2.6.12: 2.6.12 psmouse incorrectly recognizes Alps touchpad as Glidepoint

[Maximilian Attems <debian@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:01:26PM +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> I used to use 2.6.11 here on my Dell Latitude D500 laptop and the
> psmouse driver (which presumably included the patch which comes with the
> xorg-driver-synaptics package) was recognizing the touchpad just well.
> 
> I upgraded to 2.6.12, and now it recognizes it incorrectly as ALPS
> GlidePoint, the xorg-driver-synaptics thing doesn't detect the hardware
> because kernel support just isn't there.

please send /proc/bus/input/devices for both kernels.

2.6.12 had a bug not enabling the tapping due to a bug in alps_init().
if you are able to test 2.6.13-rc6 that would be wonderfull.
 
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maks