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  1. Bug #678103
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 678103

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Dave Turvene (dturvene) wrote : Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

I just got a Dell Inspiron 15R, installed precise and updated. The current kernel is 3.2.0-24-generic-pae. The problem still exists, and was frustrating me. I fixed it (hopefully) by following the instructions on this thread to add the ALPS awareness in the psmouse driver:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/104431/how-do-i-enable-multi-touch-on-a-dell-inspiron-n5110-with-an-alps-touchpad

and then tuning the delay using sudo syndaemon -i 2 -k -t -R

It appears to be working much cleaner. It's a tricky problem, and one that many people will like different solutions.