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I have purchased one Vostro 3360 that appears to be supported by Ubuntu.

I have problems with Ethernet (I solved with alx drivers) and touchpad Alps (scroll not working) after install Ubuntu 12.04. (Same with Debian Testing and Ubuntu 12.10 beta 1)

I can't select touchpad options in GNOME and Touchpad appears as PS/2 Mouse with xinput --list.

I found information in several bug reports but nothing works.

[psmouse solution][3] with this I can select Touchpad settings but scroll is still not working.

Oneiric packages from DELL http://wielki.tk/vostro/ with this everything works but the mousepad response is very bad and sometimes all the machine hangs completely)

I only installed: http://wielki.tk/vostro/debs/glidepoint_3.6-10_amd64.deb

[3]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? t=1887683&page=2

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  • Welcome to the club. I have my laptop for 3 months now and I still haven't found a good driver for the ALPS touchpad. Sep 14, 2012 at 9:54
  • With Oneiric packages I have a "good" experience with touchpad. But scroll response is still bad....
    – user89679
    Sep 14, 2012 at 22:16
  • Is this still reproducible?
    – Braiam
    Mar 13, 2014 at 2:23

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I use Dell Vostro 1510. I once had problem with the Touchpad scroll (which stopped working) when I updated the Dell Touchpad. After the update, the Dell Touchpad changed to Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad.

This problem was solved thus: at the Start menu, click on Control Panel, in Device Manager, click on the Update Device Drivers, expand the tab named Mice and other Pointing Devices and double-click on Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad. At the Dell Touchpad Properties Dialog box that comes up, click on the Drivers tab and then click on Roll Back Drivers. Give it time to roll back to the original Dell Touchpad. Then restart and enjoy your Touchpad Scroll.

The steps are:

Start menu → Control Panel → Update Device Drivers → Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad → Roll Back Drivers (under drivers tab)

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  • This is a windows solution
    – SoWhat
    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:22
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238

Tomorrow i will check last posts solution(alps.c V6).. it seems that could be solved....

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see post-factum answer here : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144118&p=1

by the way to copy the folder you download to /usr/src you must be root: sudo su - then to copy go to the folder and type: cp -R psmouse-alps-dst-1.2/ /usr/src/

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  • In case the link you provided does actually have the answer to the question, please quote the relevant part here.
    – user25656
    Feb 15, 2013 at 14:29

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