Bug#452752: Patch to enable dell 1420 touchpad scrolling is not included

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Jaime Alberto Silva wrote:
> 
> The touchpad in the dell inspiron 1420 is a new alps type that won't
> have scrolling enabled until the patch found in the following url is
> applied:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/41
> 
> I followed the instructions in this url:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3132270#post3132270
> 
> And now the touchpad scroll works.
> 
> It will be nice to include this patch in the Debian linux images.

the patch is included upstream in 2.6.24-rc3,
we will make soon snapshot builds of it available.
i'll ping you once they are available.

2.6.22 is closed, it is also not an upstream stable update candidate
so it will get picked up on 2.6.24 in sid.

regards

-- 
maks