Alps touchpad as PS/2 Generic mouse

Question

Hello. I have ALPS touchpad on my Acer Aspire 1551. It works, but in basic mode: two buttons, touch tap as click and double click. Scrolling and multitouch is not working.
Problem is on the kernel level, because it recognizes my touchpad as simple PS/2 Generic Mouse:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
There are no entries about alps in dmesg, about mouse:
[kukman@archbook ~]$ dmesg | grep -i mouse
[ 0.629021] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 6.721323] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input1
X server config is insignificant, because X can't see my touchpad, X see it as simple mouse. I've read many bugreports, many topics but nothing. I've sent own bugreports into launchpad on Ubuntu, into kernel bugzilla.
Say me, if you need some another information about my hardware. Thanks.

Answer 1

whitethorn wrote:
# xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
Still no vertical scrolling though. Now to see if some tweaking will get it to work
Same here! When disabling the PS/2 Mouse pointer, the touchpad stops working completely. It seems like the touchpad is still not properly detected but the driver is loaded anyways. Tried multiple variants of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf with no success. In fact when I define an "InputDevice" instead of an "InputClass", the driver isn't loaded anymore.
Gotta keep on waiting and hoping, I guess.