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Use windows touchpad driver in ubuntu

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Is it possible to use Windows touchpad driver in Ubuntu? I have a Dell n5110 and the touchpad is not recognized. I cannot use scroll, and most annoying, while typing the pointer usually jumps if the touchpad is touched. I see that there are lots of questions here and on the internet about this issue. Some claim to work, but I tried everything with no results.

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answered 3 Years ago ranquctive · Accepted Answer

dell basically shipped a new touchpad from alps, where previous alps drivers don't work. it uses a new protocol to use the multi-finger touch pad. alps (or dell) doesn't care about giving the drivers to linux distros.

a team tried to reverse engineer the windows drivers to get it working in linux. and here's what they came up with...

download tar file of touch pad driver for n5110 here

place the psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 folder in /usr/src (u need root permission)

in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), run #sudo bash /usr/src/psmouse-alps-dst-0.4/install.sh

configure touch pad in system settings :-)