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Registered: 2013-01-10

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[SOLVED] Removed synaptic for psmouse-alps, need to revert back to sy-

Yesterday I installed psmouse-alps-driver from AUR.
It was supposedly a fix for my Dell Precision M6600 Touchpad, which it wasn't (prob a conf error on my part).

However, installing psmouse-alps-driver did remove all possible ps-mouse mods and i need help reverting them to it's original state because xinput list doesn't even show my Touchpad atm.

Here's a part of the installer script for the alps driver:

DKMS=`which dkms`
DEPMOD=`which depmod`
MODPROBE=`which modprobe`
RMMOD=`which rmmod`
MNAME="psmouse"
MVER="alps-1.3"

post_install() {
    echo "Running dkms for install..."
    ${DKMS} add -m ${MNAME} -v ${MVER} &&\
    ${DKMS} build -m ${MNAME} -v ${MVER} &&\
    ${DKMS} install -m ${MNAME} -v ${MVER}

    if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
        lsmod | grep psmouse > /dev/null
        if [ "$?" = "0" ];then
            ${RMMOD} ${MNAME}
        fi
        ${MODPROBE} ${MNAME}

I've changed the synaptics config to something that should work,
Now i just need the kernel modules that were originally in put in place.

Last edited by Torxed (2013-09-06 19:36:16)

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Re: [SOLVED] Removed synaptic for psmouse-alps, need to revert back to sy-

IMO, you need to keep synaptics driver because Alps needs it (I'm a Latitude user). Just reinstall xf86-input-synaptics and then psmouse-alps-driver.

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Torxed

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Re: [SOLVED] Removed synaptic for psmouse-alps, need to revert back to sy-

Worked like a charm, well all i did was sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics which had been removed (?) and using the stock 50-synaptics.conf that came with it all worked fine. Thanks for the help!