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I have an alps touchpad on my laptop Acer 7741 laptop. It never got
detected as a touhpad in ubuntu <= 11.04. Finally with 11.10, it finds
it as a touchpad and in the mouse config I can see a touchpad tab.

Changing the settings in the mouse config do nothing.

xinput -list gives:

 Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)   
  ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]   
  ↳ HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse            id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]   
  ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint                    id=13    [slave  pointer  (2)]   
  ↳ PS/2 Mouse                                  id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)]    

(HP optical is my external mouse)

I can modify the sensitivity of the touchpad when I change the PS/2
mouse settings with xinput.

Changing any of the settings in the touchpad tab of the mouse GUI util
has no effect.

Disabling the PS/2 mouse disables the touchpad.
Disabling the AlpsPS/2 glidepoint does nothing.

When I do
dmesg | grep -i input I get:

[   17.613230] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11    
[   17.638723] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12

blacklisting psmouse disables the touchpad.

I can use the tapping and movement features of the touchpad....but side-
scrolling, multi-touch and most importantly, disable touchpad when
typing does not work.  These all work in windows.

** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: bot-comment
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Alps touchpad detected as both "PS/2 Mouse" and "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"....touchpad features don't work, acts like PS/2 mouse
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893839
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