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[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:48:37AM -0000, Petr Běhan wrote:
> Report on Dell E6420, alps version 0.9

I'm testing on E6320 and E6520, which I'd guess to have essentially the
same hardware as your machine, so I'm surprised to see you say some
things aren't working on your hardware that are working on my test
hardware.

> Touchpad
> - usual one finger movement works
> - two finger scroll works (only in vertical direction, not sure if it's supposed to work in horizontal too)
> - side scroll doesn't work in either direction

Two-finger scrolling should work horizontally and vertically, and it
does work on my test machines. There is a seperate option you need to
enable to get horizontal scrolling, so double-check that it is enabled.

> - tap to click doesn't work, cursor just jumps a little, no button
event is generated

What do you mean by "no button event"? The driver doesn't generate any
button events in this case, only absolute position events, which gets
interpreted as "tap to click" by userspace.

I can get tap to click, but I find that it requires tapping twice pretty
quickly.

> - disable while typing doesn't work (works when I run syndaemon, which
is probably better way to do it anyway)

This isn't a driver feature, so I think it's a userspace problem (unless
the device isn't being identified as a touchpad, but that doesn't seem
to be the case).

> One little suggestion, could you please add alps module version to the
> stuff it prints on modprobe? After few days of using it, I wasn't sure
> which version I had and had to recompile to do the tests.

If you're using the dkms package, either of the following will tell you
what version is installed.

  apt-cache showpkg psmouse-alps-dkms
  dkms status psmouse-alps

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Title:
  Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not
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