Random 4-way scroll button behaviour with Alps touchpad

Forgot to mention in case its relevant.

I do not use a mouse on this laptop although cat /proc/bus/input/devices reports a PS/2 Mouse in addition to my touchpad.

Maybe thats normal. I don't know.

In order for buttons to start working properly a kernel patch is required. By default up/down/left/right buttons will generate down/up/middle/none events.
Touchpad exterior photo is posted here: http://myrtg.blogspot.com/2008/06/aspire-5520-alps-touchpad-joystick.html

Removed ALPS_FW_BK_3 as neither Dell Vostro 1440 nor Fujitsu-Siemens S6010 have left/right buttons on their 2-way joystick.

Looks like GNOME in Intrepid got top/down/left buttons working somehow but as 'right' direction does not generate any button event this support cannot be considered as a complete one.

Hi kev-elliskingdom,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 194403

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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The bug still exists both in 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP and upstream 2.6.30.1.

The code from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19242824/alps-aspire5220-take2.patch is missing, so the button still produce incorrect events.

I can confirm bug still exists in vanilla 2.6.30.4 kernel (using Archlinux). Mr. Roman Yepishev's patch solves issue (horizontal scrolling) for my Acer Aspire 5520.

But not sure how this patch will affect Dell Vostro 1400 with the same { 0x73, 0x02, 0x50 } signature. Can anyone with Vostro 1400 comment on this?

According to this image - http://www.rozetka.com.ua/data/products/big/img06172.jpg Dell Vostro does not have any extra buttons. I have several Dell Vostro 1500 around here and they don't have up/down/left/right buttons as well.

This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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Yup, this bug is still present in Karmic and Lucid. Right touchpad button does not work at all.

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

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