[Breezy] Disable tap-to-click on Portege 3500

[Todd Slater]

I sent this yesterday and haven't seen it show up on the list yet;
apologies for duplicates.

I just installed Breezy preview on a Toshiba Portege 3500. The first
thing I noticed is that the touchpad is very sensitive. On Hoary, as I
recall, tap-to-click was automatically disabled. On Breezy, breathing
hard causes the touchpad to execute a click.

I have googled a fair amount and discovered that this is actually an
alps touchpad, not synaptics. That must be why none of my mods to
xorg.conf had any effect ;).

So, I followed the thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D28132&page=3D1&pp=3D10 and
attempted to apply the alps patch and build a new kernel.

I am using the linux-source-2.6.12.

I get a few errors on applying the patch; not all hunks get applied.

tslater at hermes:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.12$ sudo patch -p1 < alps.patch
patching file drivers/input/mouse/Makefile
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y
Hunk #1 succeeded at 15 with fuzz 1 (offset 1 line).
The next patch would create the file drivers/input/mouse/alps.c,
which already exists!  Assume -R? [n] y
patching file drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
File drivers/input/mouse/alps.c is not empty after patch, as expected
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/input/mouse/alps.c=
.rej
The next patch would create the file drivers/input/mouse/alps.h,
which already exists!  Assume -R? [n] y
patching file drivers/input/mouse/alps.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
File drivers/input/mouse/alps.h is not empty after patch, as expected
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/input/mouse/alps.h=
.rej
patching file drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y
Hunk #2 succeeded at 22 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #3 FAILED at 56.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 495.
2 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c.rej
patching file drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y
Hunk #2 FAILED at 76.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h.rej

I carried on despite these problems and when selecting the new kernel
at boot, the touchpad doesn't work at all. Does the alps patch require
the 2.6.10 source mentioned in the thread, or does the patch need to
be updated? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong when applying the
patch?

Also, is the laptop-testers list more appropriate for this problem?

Thanks,
Todd