Hello you all This post to tell that I tested the patch yesterday. Good news! now I have a fully fonctionnal synaptics touchpad on my Vostro V13
I applied the patch on a 2.6.32 kernel I am using Linux Mint LMDE, debian based on testing branch. Now my synaptics touchpad is well recognized on gpointing-device- settings, and all options seems to work (horizontal, vertical and circle scrolling, lock of the pad when typing on the keyboard, ...) I followed this tutorial (in french, sorry) : http://ashgenesis.developpez.com/linux/kernel-debian/ so to give a summary of what I did, for other to test : I modified my /etc/apt/source.list to include sources : deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free then I download linux-source-2.6.32 I followed first steps, ie : cd /usr/src debian:/usr/src# tar -xvjf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 debian:/usr/src# ln -s linux-source-2.6.32 linux debian:/usr/src# cp /boot/config-‘uname -r‘ /usr/src/linux/.config then I downloaded the above patch in the /usr/src directory, named it v13.patch and applied it : debian:/usr/src#cd linux debian:/usr/src/linux#patch -p1 < ../V13.patch once applied, i launched last line of the tutorial to build the kernel (debian style) : debian:/usr/src/linux#make-kpkg --append-to-version "-v13" --initrd buildpackage --config menuconfig this last line generated a .deb I installed : debian:/usr/src/linux#dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.32-flo_2.6.32-v13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb After a reboot, with no xorg.conf specific config file on /etc/X11, with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed, my synaptics touchpad now works on my Vostro V13. Many thanks to the author of the patch! Very happy to get back a fully functionnal touchpad on my V13 (hoping this will be included in future kernel releases) and btw,... Happy new year!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380126 Title: [Karmic] Touchpad not recognised correctly, synaptics driver not in use _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
