Saturday 4 May 2013

Installing ALPS Multitouch drivers in LINUX

Hey Guys,
Few days back  i ported myself to Linux, enjoyed the speed, performance, but missed my touch experience. Googled a lot, but failed!
Kept on Searching And found a working procedure, which enables the 2 Finger Scrolling.

Procedure :

CAUTION : TESTED THIS ON DELL WITH ALPS TOUCHPAD

Method 1 (Newer P.S. Easier ! ;-) )

Download file from
http://www.dahetral.com/public-download

Install

1. extract psmouse-alps-1.3-alt.tbz to /
For this you open Terminal
run su
Go to the downloaded file folder and execute the following
run tar  -xvf psmouse-alps-1.3-alt.tbz
run mv usr/src/psmouse-alps-1.3 /usr/src

2. run dkms add psmouse/alps-1.3
3. run dkms install psmouse/alps-1.3
4. reboot


Uninstall:
1. dkms remove psmouse/alps-1.3 --all
2. delete psmouse/alps-1.3


Method 2

  • download and extract tar archive:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzNsvDx_ae6bQnFLQkNFT0dWc3c/edit
  • copy to /usr/src:
    sudo cp -r ./psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 /usr/src/
  • change directory to the copied folder
    cd /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-0.4/
  • run install
    sudo bash ./install.sh
  • configure from settings ->mouse and touchpad->touchpad , you can choose two finger scrolling, but: no pinch-zoom is available as in Microsoft Windows driver. and you will feel your touchpad more sluggish after you install this driver. Also this driver is not compatible with Linux kernel higher than 3.5


  • To uninstall 
    dkms remove psmouse/alps-dst-0.4 --all
    delete psmouse/alps-dst-0.4

     
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6 comments:

  1. Nicolás Andrade19 June 2013 at 15:14

    Hi

    I've done this, but the touchpad performance is so bad that the laptop becomes unusable unless I have a mouse. Does that happen to you as well?

    Best!

    n.

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  2. AYUSHYA JAISWAL22 June 2013 at 00:08

    Hi, Nicolás Andrade .
    The touchpad is 90% smooth as it was before and the pinch zoom works perfectly for me.
    My Performance is Good, i can work without an ext. USB Mouse too.
    Try reinstalling the Drivers.
    Let me know the details if the problem still persists.

    Thanks,
    Ayushya

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  3. K3VIN19 September 2013 at 07:31

    hmm.. first time I actually got this driver to work thanks to your instructions.. however as Nicolás Andrade pointed out the touchpad performance is very bad the scrolling works perfectly but it seems like the tracking sensitivity is set too low doesn't always want to detect my finger now. Any ideas or insights would be greatly appreciated.

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  4. Rob13 February 2014 at 17:22

    I have the same issue! My laptop is a Dell E6410 running Ubuntu 13.10. It used to work okay, but it has recently regressed. I can make the trackpad work less erratically by:
    $ sudo rmmod psmouse
    $ sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
    but now it won't scroll, etc.

    Rob

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  5. Unknown16 February 2014 at 17:55

    Try re installing the mouse drivers, as you have stated above that it used to work okay, re installing should fix it, use the instructions given above.

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  6. LodaLeLe17 August 2017 at 09:33

    Hello,I am a Ubuntu User from quite sometime now and my two finger scroll is already working, as of this moment. The thing I am woried about is the working of the pinch zoom gesture inside Ubuntu, which unfortunately isn't working. Please help me on the same. :)
    My laptop is Lenovo Z51 with Synaptics

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