Comment 17 for bug 545307

The gpointing device ran and showed the Alps touchpad, but still didn't work
to change the tapping and scrolling.
So if everything is right at the driver level, what do you think could be
wrong? What's the best next step to fix this?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Chase Douglas
<email address hidden>wrote:

> @Mary:
>
> Your dmesg doesn't show any errors, so from what I've read that's the
> sign that everything is right at the driver level. I will submit the
> patch upstream to the driver maintainer so it can be included in the
> kernel.
>
> Run "gpointing-device-settings &" in a terminal to try it out. You may
> see some stuff printed out in the terminal, but you can ignore it.
>
> Also, can you run lshal with the test kernel and attach the output here?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> ALPS device (E7: 73 02 64) needs new model entry in alps.c
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545307
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> Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> When going to System, preference, mouse in Ubuntu 9.10 the touchpad does
> not show up and can't be configured to eliminate the tap-to-click feature. I
> am told that this is a problem in the kernel.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
> Subdevices: 2/2
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> AudioDevicesInUse:
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/snd/controlC0: mary 1474 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
> Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xf2300000 irq 16'
> Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1C5'
> Components : 'HDA:111d76d5,103c3656,00100402'
> Controls : 26
> Simple ctrls : 16
> Card1.Amixer.info:
> Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf2210000 irq 19'
> Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
> Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
> Controls : 4
> Simple ctrls : 1
> Card1.Amixer.values:
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> Playback channels: Mono
> Mono: Playback [off]
> Date: Tue Mar 23 14:20:08 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b0827668-53f3-48e2-ac2a-b2733626cf41
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm3 Notebook PC
> Package: linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic 2.6.31-20.58
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic
> root=UUID=f1e2e19e-a0f8-407d-9533-c5ba95a8be50 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic N/A
> linux-firmware 1.26
> SourcePackage: linux
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
> dmi.bios.date: 12/04/2009
> dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Corp.
> dmi.bios.version: F.22
> dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
> dmi.board.name: 3656
> dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.board.version: 44.1D
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnInsydeCorp.:bvrF.22:bd12/04/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondm3NotebookPC:pvr0486110000241F00110320000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn3656:rvr44.1D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm3 Notebook PC
> dmi.product.version: 0486110000241F00110320000
> dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
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Mary Henderson
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