Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262854AbVBCP3i (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:29:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262847AbVBCP3i (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:29:38 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:34428 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263795AbVBCP27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:28:59 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=U1maC61ZRZLuvGU7MW8tjnDVn3jqLdfWIK7KgeZWLpKlvs5gEwA1OhrmE4olC1Qj2ZC7aRBuLzVT7l9Ncvn4tRgMe4m4WQGtO+jD1aeIKRjFflN89AlbOntsquvwTvRvRtfST3uDggADr/oFkFek5AIyZ/l2McWhA7bItSzPUvo= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:28:58 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2 Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Pete Zaitcev , Peter Osterlund , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050123190109.3d082021@localhost.localdomain> <20050201234148.4d5eac55@localhost.localdomain> <20050202102033.GA2420@ucw.cz> <20050202085628.49f809a0@localhost.localdomain> <20050202170727.GA2731@ucw.cz> <20050202095851.27321bcf@localhost.localdomain> <20050203084900.GA2594@ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1865 Lines: 44 On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:22:40 -0800 (PST), Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Feb 3, 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >> > >> >> With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS. > >> > >> > No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS. > >> > >> Err... That doesn't follow. My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics > >> touchpad as part of the Dualpoint pointing devices. > > > Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS, > > Interesting... Dell DualPoint is the way the pointing devices are > described in that notebook's documentation, and I remember all the way > from back when I purchased the notebook: I really wanted the two > pointing devices. If you search the web for Dell Inspiron 8000 > DualPoint, you'll get a number of hits referring to `Dell's DualPoint > technology'. I don't see them referred to as DualPoint(TM), but I > vaguely remember having seen something like that in Dell's web site > back then. > > Maybe ALPS bought the trademark from Dell, or Dell hadn't actually > registered the trademark, or they somehow managed to get the > trademarks registered with a case difference (DualPoint vs Dualpoint)? > I am not sure but on this page ALPS states that they have trademark on DualPoint (TM): http://www3.alps.co.jp/cgi-bin/WebObjects/catalog.woa/wa/varietyList?language=english&country=com&top_mode=2003&productId=11&varietyId=3 -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/