How do I get the Touchpad Settings working on a Dell XPS 13" Ultrabook?

Question

Today I got an brand new Dell XPS 13 and I really like it. Wifi/Bluetooth/Brightness works very well. But only the Touchpad makes me insane. Okay, Multitouch is really nice and i love it on my Macbook but... i must click to click. How can I set up that is an "touch" to click?

Its makes me insane.

click, click, click.. Can I configure it?

Update: I checked the proc/devices and got:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event11 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

Its really bad - and anyone have an Idea that Ubuntu thinks that is an Touchpad??

Solution 1

Add this PPA to your system:

https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/dellxps

The changes will hopefully eventually make it into the Ubuntu archive's kernel, but for now that will enable things.

Solution 2

it looks like ubuntu is still fixing this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/978807

Solution 3

I had the same problem on my XPS. A good solution is :

> sudo -i
> touch /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_i2c_hid.conf
> gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_i2c_hid.conf
> write : blacklist i2c_hid
> restart

Finally, you could have the multitouch : 'System Settings' -> 'Mouse and Touchpad'

Solution 4

http://ken-mcconnell.com/2012/07/22/trackpad-sensitivity-in-ubuntu-on-dell-xps-13/

this is an additional tool for tweaking your touchpad

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Comments

[Jeff Holman]

I saw only an "Mouse" Tab. No "Touchpad"

[LinuxPS2]

Appears to be a bug, the touchpad is closed source and linux drivers have not been created yet, it appears Dell recognizes this and is working to fix it - bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/…

[Jeff Holman]

Seems that I should wait for the driver...

[Jeff Holman]

Hope that he fix it fast

[Aditya]

Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.

[Ashok]

This is now outdated. All changes should be in 13.04. The blogpost below - ken-mcconnell.com/2012/07/22/… gives a link to a usefull tool.

[darunia]

I found this here : ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200363