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[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone: I'm happy to report that the ALPS patches we've been testing
have been accepted by the mainline input subsystem maintainer and should
show up in kernel version 3.3. We also plan to include them in the
Ubuntu kernel for the 12.04 release. Thanks for your help in testing!

pauljohn32: In at least one case so far erratic mouse behavior has been
shown to be caused by apparent electrical interference from other
hardware, and since you say that plugging in USB devices causes the
behavior it makes me wonder if you have a similar situation. This
probably wouldn't create very dramatic movements when the touchpad was
reporting relative motion events, so it may have been there all along
but only became noticeable with the new driver as it reports absolute
position events. Do I understand correctly that the dumps you gave were
taken right after you saw sluggish cursor movement? If so I'll look and
see if the data offer any explanation.

BlogCrawler: In your log I see a typo that was fixed prior to the 0.10
version of the driver, so I don't think you're actually using the
version from coment #492. You can check what version you have installed
by running 'apt-cache showpkg psmouse-alps-dkms' in a terminal. If it
shows the 0.10 version installed, you could still be using a previous
version if you haven't rebooted or reloaded the driver since installing.
To be safe, I suggest that after you verify you have the 0.10 package
installed you power off your machine, remove all power (including the
battery) for several seconds, then put the battery back in and boot up.
Some of the old versions of the driver could leave the touchpad in a bad
state when the driver initialization failed where your log shows the
failure, and removing all power will ensure that the touchpad is fully
reset.

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