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**lmilano** · Jun 25, 2009, 05:57 AM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

I would start in System Settings, there is place to configure a mouse, have you tried there? Is this thing running badly (like in the blog post) or not running at all? Maybe in a terminal "sudo modprobe synaptics". If that gives you something, we'll go from there.

**marcopl** · Jun 25, 2009, 08:35 PM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

Lmilano,

1. There is no touchpad section under System Settings -> keyboard & mouse -> mouse

2.i tried 'sudo modprobe synaptics' and got

FATAL: Module synaptics not found.

**marcopl** · Jun 25, 2009, 09:39 PM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

1. Doing dpkg --get-selections|grep synaptics shows;

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics install

so i have this synaptics module , except that its not being used?

2. doing 'sudo hwinfo --mouse' shows;

55: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse
[Created at input.183]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input_0
Unique ID: AH6Q.5+smWHVjPI3
Hardware Class: mouse
Model: "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
Vendor: 0x0002
Device: 0x0008 "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0003
Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse3)
Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse3, /dev/input/event11
Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:35)
Driver Info #0:
Buttons: 3
Wheels: 0
XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2
GPM Protocol: exps2
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

therefore the alps glidepoint touchpad has definitely been detected.

3. more googling has shed some interesting light on this subject.

apparently Ubuntu 8.04 and later include a new version of Xorg which support input-hotplug and starting frm ubuntu 8.10 onwards, input device configuration is done through HAL rather than in your xorg.conf

Checkout https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input

**lmilano** · Jun 26, 2009, 04:01 AM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

My bad, I didn't remember that synaptics is not a kernel module! Let's see if hal is running and synaptics loaded, could you try:

Code:

dmesg |grep -i synaptics
service hal status

Thanks for all the info, but can you please answer my previous questions?

I would start in System Settings, there is place to configure a mouse, have you tried there? Is this thing running badly (like in the blog post) or not running at all?

**marcopl** · Jun 26, 2009, 11:01 PM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

hi,

~$ sudo dmesg |grep -i synaptics

[ 27.632170] synaptics was reset on resume, see synaptics_resume_reset if you have trouble on resume

and ;

~$ service hal status
* hald is running

And;

- the touchpad is not running at all..... this must be because the xserver-synaptics is not being loaded or something?
- There is no touchpad section under System Settings -> keyboard & mouse -> mouse

After googling on the synaptics reset resume thingy , i came across a bug report at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/un...ch/065777.html that said that this is a bug and that it was fixed in 2.6.28-11.37.

my kernel is;

~$ uname -r
2.6.28-13-generic

so it should be fixed? ;(

what should i do next?

**lmilano** · Jun 27, 2009, 09:45 AM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

Good work, this is a bug. I think if you'd like to help getting this fixed for you and others, you could register in launchpad if you haven't done so, and report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ps/+bug/330606

You may find a workaround there, in the process of helping fix the bug (although that's not the place to request support, but rather help developers fix it).

As for workarounds, two ideas:

1. Try to enable the "proposed updates" repository and see if there is a newer pre-release kernel that fixes the issue: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu
(after that, please disable it, these are updates that are still being tested)

2. If that doesn't help, you can enable the karmic repositories temporarily, and add _only_ the new kernel (please do not upgrade anything else .

Note that step 2. is a bit of major surgery, so in principle let's avoid it. If you wanna do that, please tell us what package manager you use (adept/synaptic) and we'll try to guide you through.

Best!
Leo

**marcopl** · Jun 27, 2009, 10:03 PM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ [ABANDON]

Leo, thanx for helping me bro. But i am not skillful enough to be messing around with kernels and so on. Additionally i rather put that time on getting bluetooth to work. i already have wireless ,etc working and i dont want a kernel change to mess that up.

not being able to get the touchpad to work just seems odd... but hei at least the mouse is working and i do almost exclusively use the mouse anyway. so i prefer to let this slide into the abyss....

**lmilano** · Jun 27, 2009, 10:26 PM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ

My pleasure! I am sure at some point in the future it'll start working with some newer kernel anyways 8)

**marcopl** · Jun 28, 2009, 12:36 AM

Re: newbie - trying to get alps glidepoint touchpad working in JJ[ABANDON]

ok. marking this title as [abandon]

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