Alps Touchpad Driver Download Linux
[SOLVED] Can't install alps touchpad driver I have recently switched from ubuntu to arch, everything works fine except the touch-pad, my laptop is a dell inspiron 3542 with an Alps touchpad, the official dell site has a driver for it, but it is only for ubuntu (.deb file), i found the driver in the AUR ( psmouse-alpsv7-dkms )but i am not able. Alps Touchpad. Download32 is source for alps touchpad shareware, freeware download - XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver, Touchpad Pal, Touchpad-indicator, Mouse Speed Switcher, Mountains Screen Saver, etc. Epson r290 software. The aim of this project is to provide a stable, full-featured ALPS touchpad driver for the Mac OS. The core of the driver has been updated to Linux 4.7 which made significant improvements to the usability of ALPS touchpads (even on Linux!!).
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Alps Touchpad Driver Update
You can find this touchpads on DELL devices (I have it on my DELL Latitude e6430, but many other Laptops from DELL Vostro series have same device and also a bunch of HP Laptops are reported).Anyway the problem with this touchpad is that is recognised as standard ps2 wheel mouse instead of synaptic/ALPS touchpad. so you won't even find the touchpad tab under mouse settings and you get a stupid pad that is unable to scroll or tap to click (because it is seen as wheel mouse, so kernel does not understand gestures).
Check this in your mouse preferences, if you find just 'mouse' tab and not 'touhpad' and your touchpad is behaving like Neanderthal Man this can be a solution for you:
I found a way to fix this installing a custom 3rd party (but open) driver and using dkms.
download the latest driver source code package from here (currently newest package is 1.2):
[url='http://www.dahetral.com/public-download']http://www.dahetral.com/public-download[/url]
(really say thank you to these people who wrote this driver, God bless them)
put it in a folder of your choiche (eg: /home/youruser/alps-driver)
open a Terminal and cd to that folder
ten just run these commands (keep in mind that you have to be in the folder where you placed the file you just downloaded and to replace X.X with the version you downloaded. at time of this writing is 1.2):
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sudo apt-get install dkms
tar -xf psmouse-alps-dst-X.X.tbz
sudo mv usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-X.X/ /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-X.X/
sudo dkms add psmouse/alps-dst-X.X
sudo dkms autoinstall
sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse
now you'll find the TouchPad tab under mouse settings and you can enable scrolling and tapping. just because now is considered a touchpad and not a PS wheel mouse.
I personally suggest Single Finger Scrolling ad Two Finger Scrolling behaves strange. But these are my 2 cents.
This driver will survive to the kernel updates because we installed it using dkms.
NOTE: if a new driver comes to the site I linked just download the new one and repeat the procedure.
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For cleaniniess remove the old one with
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sudo dkms remove psmouse/alps-dst-X.X --all
where X.X is the number of the old version to remove from dkms.
Then you can also remove the relative folder in /usr/src.
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sudo rm -r /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-X.X
hope this helps.