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[Robert Hooker <sarvatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The "touchpad" control panel name in gnome is deceptive, in reality it
only works for devices that use the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics driver.
These newer Alps touchpads use a undocumented and proprietary protocol
that ALPS will not open source and has not been reverse engineered yet,
as such they are only supported as generic PS/2 mice in linux. We do
carry a patch in the kernel that quirks them to a ImPS/2 device on Dell
machines for scroll support but it still is a device that uses the evdev
X driver and changing settings in the synaptics touchpad control panel
will not be possible. With the dell quirk it is not even possible to
disable scrolling on the fly or adjust the features so it is very far
from optimal. I'm not sure if the kernel patch for the dells can be
extended to these other devices or not, that needs investigation.

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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  [FUJITSU FMVNP2PL] edge scrolling does not work

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