ALPS touchpad on DELL Inspiron I15RN-3647BK with Ubuntu 11.10 x64
I can't make work the multitouch of the ALPS touchpad in my Dell Inspiron I15RN-3647BK with Ubuntu 11.10 x64, kernel 3.0.0-17-generic... I have tried with this driver but it doesn't work http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.10/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.10_all.deb. This is the result from the following command:
user@laptop:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys
That came with or without the alps driver from canonical repository and the touchpad just works like a PS2 generic mouse...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance...
Just didn't want to take credits for solving that problem. I did everything it said in that blog. Here's what I did in the terminal:
1. wget -O psmouse.tgz http://www.dahetral.com/public-download/psmouse-alps-dst-0.4.tbz/at_download/file
2. tar -xvf psmouse.tgz
3. cd usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-0.4/src/
4. wget -O alps.c http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=m404GW1G
5. cd ../..
6. sudo mv psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 /usr/src/
7. cd /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-0.4/
8. sudo dkms add psmouse/alps-dst-0.4
9. sudo dkms autoinstall
10. sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse
- When I got to 10 it complained about psmouse module not existing so I did 9 again and just
sudo modprobe psmouse
and multitouch was already working. Then I rebooted and did 9 and 10 again because the touchpad had a lag and moved really slow. Don't know exatly what solved that but it's working great now.
This solved it for Dell Inspiron N5110 on Ubuntu 12.10. Just follow the instructions on this site, which has extracted the instructions from this arch forum thread.