emulate3buttons and alpsv7 pad

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I have installed 13.2rc1 on a new Toshiba laptop, which has an accupoint stick and a pointer pad which seems to be a ALPSv7
I have two significant problems

1: having only 2 physical mouse buttons I need emulate3buttons to be on, but it does not work

2: netsearches suggest thst I need the psmouse-dkms-alpsv7 module with kernel 3.13, but the instructions to build it fail – says there is an error, and points to a log file that shows no errors. see below

Idealy I would like the pad switched off and button emulation on the accupoint. Any suggestion as how to proceed most welcome.

Toshiba Protege z30-A; fvwm2 on X11; no Gnome or KDE or similar

==John ff

make.log:

DKMS make.log for psmouse-dkms-alpsv7-1.0 for kernel 3.16.3-1.gd2bbe7f-desktop (x86_64)
Thu Oct 30 10:29:49 GMT 2014
make: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/linux-3.16.3-1.gd2bbe7f-obj/x86_64/desktop’
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.16.3-1.gd2bbe7f-obj/x86_64/desktop’
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/psmouse-base.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/synaptics.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/alps.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/elantech.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/logips2pp.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/lifebook.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/sentelic.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/trackpoint.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/touchkit_ps2.o
CC /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/cypress_ps2.o
LD /var/lib/dkms/psmouse-dkms-alpsv7/1.0/build/src/psmouse.o
MODPOST 0 modules
make: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-3.16.3-1.gd2bbe7f-obj/x86_64/desktop’

2

as root “modprobe psmouse” ???
then
“lsmod” to see if it’s there

3

modprobe/lsmod shows there isno psmouse.ko file

I have found that there is revised version of the psmouse/alpsv7 code but that also does not build.

Also see a report that the 3.17 kernel has this fixed.

Humm… not sure what to do

4

try: modprobe /pathtowhereyoudidthebuild/psmouse.ko

or

Update all your kernel installs, desktop, base, syms, etc., from the kernel stable repo
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
Note: probably won’t work on uefi + secure boot system ATM

I’m running kernel-desktop-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251.x86_64.rpm
and, the update kept my previous kernel install toolol!

or

Wait for 13.2 as I expect it to have kernel-desktop-3.16.6-2.1
which you could try from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-13.2/standard/ repo

Good luck

5

Hold everything!

doing a zypper dup just now:

The following 7 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  kernel-default-devel-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 kernel-desktop-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 kernel-desktop-devel-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 
  kernel-devel-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 kernel-source-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 kernel-syms-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 
  kernel-xen-devel-3.17.1-3.1.gd944251 

The following 2 packages are going to be upgraded:
  kernel-docs kernel-macros

There you go! thanks to the Dev Team

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Not so. I did not get that on my laptop, and I realized that I have the Kernel stable repo active on my desktop, but, I did get get a kernel update FWIW.

I still would not try it on an UEFI + secure boot system ATM.