[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

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I have a similar problem, I think. I have an ASUS Eee 1015PED. The
touchpad works fine, even all the capacitive multitouch things, like the
two-fingered scrolling and the three-fingered right click, but there is
no Touchpad Tab in Preferences -> Mouse, so I can't turn on the disable-
touchpad-while-typing thing, or turn off tap-to-click...both problems
are incredibly annoying to me, because my mouse flies around when I'm
trying to type, and I always inadvertently click things with the
touchpad while moving my finger.

I tried running syndaemon, but it says it can't find anything. I tried
gsynaptics, but it says it needs 'SHMClient' 'true' enabled in
xorg.conf. That's not going to fly because there is no xorg.conf in
10.04 because there's no hal; it's all udev now, which I have no idea
how to configure. I tried fiddling with synclient but it said there
wasn't any driver to connect to.

I think that, at least on my machine, the touchpad is operating on a
lower level than udev is aware of, because my scrolling is working, but
the Touchpad tab in Mouse is absent. This suggests udev is seeing it as
a generic mouse, and some other driver or something is passing the
touchpad-type stuff to the higher levels. For example, to get the Fn
keys working on my 1015, I had to use a kernel parameter. Does getting
the touchpad to work require a kernel parameter?

I was directed to come here by looking at this:
http://markmail.org/message/y5zvwpemhd63dfj5

Some outputs:

lsmod | grep psmouse
psmouse                63245  0
-
dmesg | grep mouse
[    0.392123] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input4
[    0.586860] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   14.467520] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64

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Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625
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