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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 on Dell Latitude E6530 Alps touchpad

Out of the box, the 13.04 distro found the Alps touchpad but it doesn't work because Alps doesn't have Linux drivers ready.

To get it to work, I did:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

and then rebooted.  I needed to confirm they were installed so I used:

 modprobe -l |grep synaptics
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko
kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/staging/ste_rmi4/synaptics_i2c_rmi4.ko

Both track point and mousepad work now.