Acontece que foi um bug no kernel, o kernel 3.13.0-37-generic parece resolvê-lo (pelo menos para este touchpad).
Por alguma razão, meu trackpad está sendo detectado como rato em toda a distro que eu tentei (Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17, CrunchBang, Salix), exceto Ubuntu 12.04. Aqui está a saída relevante de /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 25.350] (II) config/udev: Adding input device DLL0662:00 06CB:2985 (/dev/input/event13)
[ 25.350] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 25.350] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'DLL0662:00 06CB:2985'
[ 25.350] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: always reports core events
[ 25.350] (**) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Device: "/dev/input/event13"
[ 25.351] (--) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Vendor 0x6cb Product 0x2985
[ 25.351] (--) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 25.351] (--) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Found relative axes
[ 25.351] (--) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Found x and y relative axes
[ 25.351] (II) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: Configuring as mouse
[ 25.351] (**) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 25.351] (**) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 25.351] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/INT33C3:00/i2c-11/i2c-DLL0662:00/input/input13/event13"
[ 25.351] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "DLL0662:00 06CB:2985" (type: MOUSE, id 12)
[ 25.351] (II) evdev: DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: initialized for relative axes.
[ 25.351] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 25.351] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 25.351] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 25.351] (**) DLL0662:00 06CB:2985: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 25.351] (II) config/udev: Adding input device DLL0662:00 06CB:2985 (/dev/input/mouse0)
[ 25.351] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 25.351] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
Alguma idéia de por que isso está acontecendo e como evitá-lo?
PS. Dell tem proporcionado algum tipo de motorista em ligação mas a instalação falha tanto no Ubuntu 12.04 como no 14.04 com esta mensagem:
(Reading database ... 147284 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics-dkms_0.1_all.deb ...
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Deleting module version: 0.1
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
Unpacking oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics-dkms (0.1) over (0.1) ...
Setting up oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics-dkms (0.1) ...
Loading new oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics-0.1 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.13.0-24-generic
Building for architecture amd64
Building initial module for 3.13.0-24-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (amd64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/make.log for more information.
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/make.log contém o seguinte:
DKMS make.log for oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics-0.1 for kernel 3.13.0-24-generic (amd64)
Fri Sep 12 01:18:44 UTC 2014
make: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build'
make -C /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic'
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/appletouch.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/bcm5974.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.o
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:49:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘gpio_mouse_probe’
static int __devinit gpio_mouse_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
^
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:153:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘gpio_mouse_remove’
static int __devexit gpio_mouse_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
^
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:174:12: error: ‘gpio_mouse_probe’ undeclared here (not in a function)
.probe = gpio_mouse_probe,
^
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:175:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__devexit_p’ [-Werror=implicit-function- declaration]
.remove = __devexit_p(gpio_mouse_remove),
^
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:175:25: error: ‘gpio_mouse_remove’ undeclared here (not in a function)
.remove = __devexit_p(gpio_mouse_remove),
^
/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.c:23:13: warning: ‘gpio_mouse_scan’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
static void gpio_mouse_scan(struct input_polled_dev *dev)
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build/gpio_mouse.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/oem-touchpad-alps-synaptics/0.1/build'
Obrigado
Acontece que foi um bug no kernel, o kernel 3.13.0-37-generic parece resolvê-lo (pelo menos para este touchpad).