Alps Electric touchpad and Fedora 15

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:32 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: 
> I am looking at 2 laptops with an Alps touchpad and Fedora 15 + Gnome 3:
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> 1) Dell Inspiron 1764 with Intel Core i5-430M
> 2) Dell Vostro 3750 with Intel Core i5-2410M (Sandy Bridge)
> 
> 1) is almost 2 years older than 2) so I suspect the same goes
> for the Alps Electric touchpad.
> 
> On both laptops the Alps is "recognized" as a PS/2 mouse.
> In general this works good though I have not checked if
> all the functionality of the touchpad is available.
> 
> My question concerns the entry "Mouse and Touchpad" under
> "System Settings" (gnome-control-center).
> 
> In 1) clicking on this icon gives you a configuration window
> with entries for mouse AND touchpad (with rather skimpy options).
> 
> In 2) clicking on this icon ONLY shows a mouse configuration window.
> 
> Why this difference? It also shows up in the hardware listings.
> On 1) I find PS/2 mouse AND Alps. On 2) I only see PS/2 mouse.
> 
> Newer Alps? Sandy Bridge?

Latest ALPS developments:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660

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