<div dir="ltr">There's a workaround to that. First try out these commands in order:<br><br><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" face="courier new,monospace">$ sudo modprobe -r psmouse</font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps</span><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Check if touchpad AND scrolling work now. If they do, add the following line to <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (create the file if it doesn't exist):</span><br>
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">options psmouse proto=imps<br><br>Shortcut to the above operation:<br></span></span></font><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">$ echo "options psmouse proto=imps" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf</span><br clear="all">
<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br>Regards,</span></b></span></div><div><div style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><b><font size="2">Chhatoi Pritam Baral</font></b></span></p></div></div></div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 19:52, Dixon Xavier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dixoncx@gmail.com">dixoncx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
OS: Ubuntu 11.04<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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I am facing problem with alps touchpad in sony vaio notebook. It<br>
doesnt supports vertical and horizontal scrolling.<br>
how can i solve this...?<br>
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Output of "xinput list"<br><br>⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]<br>⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]<br>⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]<br>
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]<br>⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]<br> ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]<br> ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]<br> ↳ Sony Vaio Keys id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]<br> ↳ Sony Visual Communication Camer id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]<br> ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]<br>
<br><br>The ALPS touchpad is detected twice as PS/2 Mouse & AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint.<br><br>
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