Feedback on the Dell Inspiron 15R

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback!

Which release of Ubuntu are you using?

The certified Inspiron 15R I have here has Ubuntu 11.10 installed and the touchpad is recognized as a Synaptics, all touchpad functionalities are usable (including 2-finger scroll).

The kernel detects the Synaptics touchpad like this:

[ 17.040700] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04733/0xa40000/0xa0000
[ 17.119849] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8

And xinput --list also identifies it as a touchpad:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

Hello,

Like i already stated in the bug report:
Kubuntu-1110:~$ xinput -list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
...
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input13
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event12
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I've tested this issue with the Dell 15R (N5110) in our lab with 11.10 32-bit. The touchpad (ALPS) operates normally with scroll functionality. Seeing as how your hardware is operating differently could be one of two different issues, an out of date BIOS or different hardware that was not certified. Dell may have switched components making your system different then our certified hardware.

Hello,

I checked (via windows) that i have an alps touchpad.
Is there some way to extract more information from the system to search for a solution?
The new version of the alps driver (0.10) does not give a solution.

One possible solution that has worked on Lenovo models is the following:

rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=bare

did this, but no luck...