Linux kernel driver for newer ALPS touchpads (as of Mar 2014)

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Brief update to installing the ALPS driver set. I followed the below instructions but found the driver was now at this location. As users will note this is now version 0.11 of the ALPS driver and the line to remove in this version is line 137. Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peter, Neil, I found on the net a possible way to detect ALPS driver so I made some changes to your driver. Unfortunately I do not have ALPS touchpad so if anyone could give it a spin I's appreciate it. Alps Touchpad on Dell: how do I install the DKMS driver to enable multitouch? Ask Question. How to successfully install the ALPS Touchpad DKMS driver. GlidePoint 3.6 touchpad driver GlidePoint 3.6 touchpad driver for Linux. (Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.79ubuntu0.1.).

📢 Make sure you have dkms and linux-headers installed in your system: 📢

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Run the following commands in your shell as root:

This will build and install the updated psmouse module for your current kernel.

INTRODUCTION

Some new machines, like the Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15 have a new ALPS touchpadwhich uses a protocol different from previous versions. The linux kernel (as of3.13) does not recognize them as an ALPS touchpad, and they end up beingrecognized only as a PS/2 mouse. For this reason there is no scrolling, nomiddle button emulation, no two finger recognition, etc.

The folks at the linux kernel input devices mailing list were very helpful andpointed me to the right patches, I have simply gathered them together and addeda dkms.conf file to make it easier to build. This page(https://github.com/he1per/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7) explains how you installand build the module.

Thanks specially to Tommy Will from the linux-input@vger.kernel.org mailing listand to Elaine (Qiting) who actually wrote the code :) The original patch fromElaine is found here:

DO I NEED THIS MODULE?

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If you get an error like this from dmesg:

then you need this module. Your touchpad will be recognized after you install it.

If you have a Toshiba Z30-A, you need to update to kernel 3.17 and you won'tneed this patch.

BUILDING and INSTALLING

Pre-requisites:

dkms:
linux headers will be installed as a dependency if you use anyof the commands above.

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Manual build and install of psmouse.ko

It is better to use install.sh, but if you want to build and installmanually you can follow these instructions.

As root do the following from the directory where this README is found:(all this is done automatically by the install.sh script)

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