You could, just like i'm doing, hold kernel upgrades so you don't need to rebuild the package every time... Just a suggestion :) On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 19:31, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hi Mike, > >> > >> I have a Latitude E5520, and I suspect we have the same touchpad. > >> > >> This is the Kernel bug you'll be interested in: > >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660 > >> > >> This is the patch I've been using to add support for my touchpad to the > kernel > >> for the past few releases: > >> http://giddie.homeip.net/alps.patch > >> > >> If you want it, here is a pre-built 64-bit kernel module: > >> http://giddie.homeip.net/psmouse.ko > >> > >> You can keep it anywhere you want, and just "rmmod psmouse", and "insmod > >> psmouse.ko". I'm pretty sure this will do the trick for you. > >> > >> Paul > > > > Thanks Paul - I will certainly give your pre-built module a shot later > > today.... and will post back to say if it works for me.... > > Paul - I did copy your file and loaded the module but it failed to > work - in fact it even stopped the touchpad cursor movement > altogether! > > I returned to the psmouse-elantech package from AUR, built the package > and then installed it with pacman -U - and hey presto it gives the > correct behaviour in terms of touchpad tapping, as well as vertical > scrolling - it will need to be rebuilt each time there is a new kernel > until kernel version 3.3 is released but at least I now have a working > touchpad on the laptop so I can live with the small inconvenience of > rebuilding the module periodically in the interim. > > Thanks for the input. > -- > mike c >
