Hope someone can help me a little with this problem.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z510, with a ALPS touchpad. And OS = Kubuntu 14.04 (Windows 8.1 alongside with it)
The touchpad is detected as an PS/2 mouse. Using this guide https://askubuntu.com/a/417518/262262, and some minor edits, managed I to get it to work, and multitouch is working as it should. But after reboot, all settings went back, as it was before the psmouse-dkms-alpsv7 modification.
Is it possible to make the changes permanent?
Before changes:
The touchpad is detected as an PS/2 mouse:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:4027 id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Lenovo EasyCamera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
dmesg writes:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -i alps
[ 1.457466] psmouse serio1: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad: E7=73 03 0a, EC=88 b6 06
The changes:
I started to follow the guide (https://askubuntu.com/a/417518/262262), but every time I restartet the PC, the GIT folder was deleted. So I moved it to /msp instead. (chmod 777)
file = install.sh
#!/bin/bash # changed from: #!/bin/bash
#old line: MDIR="/usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)"
MDIR="/lib/modules/$(uname -r)"
#old line: NEWMDIR="$MDIR/${DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]}"
NEWMDIR="$MDIR${DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]}"
file = dkms.conf
#old line: DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/updates"
DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/updates/dkms"
and then installed it. The modifications in the above files, prevented errors under install.
Results:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:/psm/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7$ sudo ./install.sh
[sudo] password for chp:
────── Building with dkms ───────
Error! DKMS tree already contains: psmouse-dkms-alpsv7-1.0
You cannot add the same module/version combo more than once.
Module psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0 already built for kernel 3.13.0-32-generic/4
** Old module backed up as:
'/lib/modules/3.13.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko.orig'
────── Installing with dkms ───────
Module psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0 already installed on kernel 3.13.0-32-generic/x86_64
Install succeded:
'/lib/modules/3.13.0-32-generic/updates/dkms/psmouse.ko' found and copied to:
'/lib/modules/3.13.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko'
──→ rmmod psmouse
──→ modprobe psmouse
ok.
xinput:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:/psm/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:4027 id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ALPS PS/2 Device id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Lenovo EasyCamera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
dmesg:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:/psm/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7$ dmesg | grep -i alps
[ 1.457466] psmouse serio1: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad: E7=73 03 0a, EC=88 b6 06
[ 2072.514926] input: ALPS PS/2 Device as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input18
[ 2072.536678] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input17
synclient:
chp@chp-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z510-kubuntu:/psm/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7$ synclient -l
Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 614
RightEdge = 3481
TopEdge = 307
BottomEdge = 1740
FingerLow = 12
FingerHigh = 15
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 201
MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 141
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 91
HorizScrollDelta = 91
VertEdgeScroll = 1
HorizEdgeScroll = 0
CornerCoasting = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0
MinSpeed = 1
MaxSpeed = 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.0436872
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 2
RBCornerButton = 3
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 3
TapButton3 = 0
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 1
ClickFinger3 = 0
CircularScrolling = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 100
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
PressureMotionMinZ = 15
PressureMotionMaxZ = 80
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
ResolutionDetect = 1
GrabEventDevice = 1
TapAndDragGesture = 1
AreaLeftEdge = 0
AreaRightEdge = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge = 0
HorizHysteresis = 22
VertHysteresis = 22
ClickPad = 0
Best Answer
You only need to install the DKMS package once, it will be copied to
/var/lib/dkms/
. So,/tmp/
was fine, and you really should not create/msp/
either as it violates the Filesystem Hierarchy guidelines.My guess is that
psmouse
is considered a crucial module which should be available when Ubuntu boots, and therefore ends up in the initial ramdisk. As your new module replaced an existing module (psmouse
), you can try to run thesudo update-initramfs -u
to get your new module in the initrd. You only need to do this once as further kernel updates will trigger this automatically.