Alps Electric touchpad and Fedora 15

[Alexander Volovics]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:02:43AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> > 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

Thanks for the reference. Looked through the posts but this
is all rocket science for me :-)
Guess I shall have to wait.

Alexander