[ltp] R61 touchpad not recognized in Ubuntu

[Ugo Riboni]

> > I have a pretty new thinkpad R61 which i'm trying to setup correctly
> > in ubuntu (gutsy).
> >
> > I've got pretty much everything working, except some things. One of
> > these is the touchpad.
> >
> > Ubuntu recognizes it, but just as a generic PS2 mouse. So i can use it
> > to move around the screen just fine, but for everything else it's
> > totally useless.
>
> You probably own a R61 with an ALPS UltraNAV.
>
> If that's the case you should check out:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8864#21

Thanks Christian, the patch worked fine.
The pad is now recognized and i can disable the tap-to-click. However
there are some issues that were introduced and that are not related to
the trackpointer. See below.

> Anyway, if you just want to use the cool features of the pad
> the patch from the bugzilla URL will do the job. The
> trackpointer is also functional like in PS/2 emu mode.

The trackpointer is not an issue for me, i rarely use it. it may be
nice one day to be able to use it for scrolling into pages, but it's
not a priority for now (although if already possible, it would be nice
to know how).

The real issue is with the three mouse buttons that are located under
the space bar, above the touchpad. They work OK for single clicks, but
for some reason it doesn't seem to be possible to hold them down to
drag. I can hold the two buttons under the touchpad just fine, but
these three buttons above it are much more confortable for me.

Any idea what could be wrong ?
In your previous post you mentioned that different parameters for the
Synaptics Xorg driver are needed, but i didn't change my Xorg
configuration, so it may be because of that ?

Thanks,
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Ugo