Alps Touchpads
- Keywords:
- alps glidepoint touchpad psmouse
- Last updated by:
- Jeff Lane
The Alps touchpad is recognized as a PS/2 mouse. Clicking and moving works fine, but scolling and multitouch functionalities are not working. Is there driver available for download?
Ubuntu Version: 12.04 LTS
~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=11 [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_
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
This has been an issue for quite some time and really comes down to lack of functionality in the Alps driver. The ultimate fallback is to use the generic psmouse driver to provide basic functionality.
Here is a link that may help: http://
And one other: http://
