How can I enable touch pad gestures(multi touch effects) of alps touch pad which comes with dell inspiron n5110 in ubuntu 11.10. These gestures worked fine with windows.
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This blog post contains instructions for installing patched mouse drivers, which enable correct recognition of your touchpad: http://nwoki.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/multitouch-fix-for-alps-touchpad/ Even this is a little outdated, as there have been several updates to the drivers since.
In short: Download psmouse-alps-1.3: http://www.dahetral.com/public-download/psmouse-alps-1.3.tbz/view Then (using sudo / root):
- Extract the folder
psmouse-alps-1.3
to/usr/source
- cd to
/usr/source
dkms add psmouse-alps-1.3
dkms autoinstall
rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse
Bam! Working multitouch! :-)
Possible duplicate: Enable two-finger scrolling on ALPS touchpad
If you want to enable your Dell Inspiron 15R Touchpad:
- download that
alps-dkms
package and install it in/usr/src
. - from a terminal, navigate to
/usr/src/psmouse-alps-0.10/src
and thengedit alps.c
- in
alps.c
scroll down and copy the/* Dell Vostro 1400 */
line completely. In that line you will have to replace first 3 matches, that is , replace 0x73 , 0x02 , 0x50 with 0x73 , 0x03 , 0x50 . - Save the file and return to the terminal. In the terminal type
dkms add -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
- After this, type
dkms build -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
- after build is complete, install it with
dkms install -m psmouse -v alps-0.10
- after it installs it successfully, type
rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse
This will reload your psmouse module. - Next, type
xinput --list
to see whether it loaded successfully or not. If it showsAlps/PS2 Alps GlidePoint
in the xinput , than congrats. And i bet it will show as i got it working by this! If you need complete patched module , you can ask me :)