This great patch, from http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.10/ has been merged on linux-next by input team (I guess), seems that is avalable on kernel 3.3-rc1. Fedora already backported to kernels of F-15 and F-16, since kernel-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64. and we got ALPS working and detect with synclient: synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1 synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1 synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 synclient HorizEdgeScroll=1 synclient -l | grep -i scroll Now, just left documentation, how to build a custom kernel in Fedora, using mock ...