[Solved]Touchpad on Dell Latiude 7480

[darknico84]

Hello world,
I just got a Dell Latitude 7480 and nearly everything is working fine with Mageia 6 64. Within non functional devices, I have : the fingerprint reader (this is not a big deal), but I also have the touchpad (this is more bothering).
This touchpad seems to be provided by Alps : it doesn't work at all, I've downloaded and compiled some psmouse-alps drivers, but these ones seems to be far too old (3 or 4 years) and are not working too.
Has anybody managed to have the touchpad working on a Dell Latitude 7480 ? Or does anybody have an Alps touchpad functional on mageia 6 64 ? from what I've read here and there it's supposed to work with Ubuntu 16.04 ...

Thanks a lot for any help

Regards

[darknico84]

EUREKA, it's working now. All I had to do was to download the last stable kernel on kernel.org
untar
make oldconfig
make rpm
rpm -ivh of generated packages
reboot

and everything is fine ...
just missing recognition in KDE ... will investigate on it.

Mageia's kernel is a bit too old

[maracuja]

As a first step, check to see if you have xinput and x11-driver-input-synaptics installed. Installing those helped on my Latitude e4300 with Alps touchpad.

[darknico84]

Hello I had everything and anything possible installed.
I finally downloaded the last stable kernel from kernel.org
make oldconfig
make rpm
rpm -ivh <allgeneratedrpm>
reboot

and now the touchpad is recognised as DLL07A0:01 et is working. I just miss support in plasma (no touchpad found) but I can use it without it. Maybe plasma is too old in mageia 6 as the kernel was.

Thanks for the answer

Regards

[isadora]

Please darknico84, don't forget to mark the topc [SOLVED]
You can do so by editing the title/subject of the first message in the topic.
Place [SOLVED] in front of subject/title.

Thanks ahead.