Comment 15 for bug 1103594

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Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :

The fix to enable the Cypress PS/2 trackpad in the Dell XPS12 (and possibly other laptops) now appears in the standard Ubuntu Raring kernel (as of 3.8.0-7.15) and is pending inclusion upstream in the mainline Linux 3.9 kernel.

The fix will also be applied to the standard Ubuntu Precise (12.04) and Quantal (12.10) kernels in the near future. In the meantime, the fix for those Ubuntu versions will be available via the Sputnik Project kernel PPA. Sputnik kernel version "kamal14" (available within a few hours) enables the Cypress trackpad on the XPS12:

  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-kernel