Bug#703607: Please include Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver in linux-image-3.2.0-*
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:20:01PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
This is a bit off-topic, but I'm not sure it warrants a different bug
report (feel free to clone):
I recently had to support a friend who bought a Dell E6230 and installed
Wheezy, but couldn't get the touchpad working (it was detected as a
regular PS2 Mouse). The E6230 is a May 2012 release laptop, otherwise
identical to the E6220, which had a regular ALPS touchpad with support
backported to wheezy in the first days of the freeze.
It turns out that the E6230 has a "Rushmore" ALPS touchpad. Support for
those was exists in upstream by 1302bac33d9e88cd43e482191a806998f3ed43cc,
committed Feb 13, will be in 3.9. cd401204873101245287afc07271b39c79194d9c
is probably part of that series too.
The support is hence bleeding-edge, but the E6230/E6430/E6530 laptops
are out for quite some time and are very popular -- it's basically the
12/14/15 inch Latitudes that are on sale now.
I tried backporting that patch and failed miserably. I'm not sure how
much more work would it be to apply them and if they'll be accepted into
Debian if they have to pull a dozen more commits, esp. this late in the
cycle. I'll let you be the judge of that, I was impressed you changed
this to "important" :)
FWIW, I built psmouse.ko straight of 3.9 and the touchpad works as a
charm on that laptop. I can also do more extensive testing with a 3.2 +
patches, albeit with a bit of an increased turnaround as I don't own
that laptop.
Thanks,
Faidon
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