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Touchpad on C810, could anyone confirm this, please ?
Hi,
I had to partition my hard disk and after that I found out that the Synaptics touchpad on my Dell Latitude C810 was not behaving as before :
If I put the mouse pointer on either the up/down/left/right little arrow of a scrolling bar, then click several times and leave my finger on the touchpad, I *seem to recall* that the page was scrolling smoothly up/down/left/right.
Could anyone confirm that this is the normal behaviour ?
Now all I can do is tap on the touchpad when the pointer is on an arrow, which results in "one line" scrolling, but I can't get a permanent scrolling.
And, if the problem is confirmed, has anyone any idea of the solution for this ? I already reinstalled the synaptics driver from the Dell support site, no success. What else can I do ?
Thanks in advance.
I had to partition my hard disk and after that I found out that the Synaptics touchpad on my Dell Latitude C810 was not behaving as before :
If I put the mouse pointer on either the up/down/left/right little arrow of a scrolling bar, then click several times and leave my finger on the touchpad, I *seem to recall* that the page was scrolling smoothly up/down/left/right.
Could anyone confirm that this is the normal behaviour ?
Now all I can do is tap on the touchpad when the pointer is on an arrow, which results in "one line" scrolling, but I can't get a permanent scrolling.
And, if the problem is confirmed, has anyone any idea of the solution for this ? I already reinstalled the synaptics driver from the Dell support site, no success. What else can I do ?
Thanks in advance.
Art
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November 29th, 2005 23:00
and the scroll will continue at the speed set by the 'Stroke', this will continue
all the way to the end of the document.
To customize the "Virtual Scrolling" feature, go to the Scrolling Properties Page
located in the Mouse Properties Dialog.
There is also "Locking Drag" that locks pointer to the item you want to drag.
Without (or improperly installed) Synaptics Driver, you will have a TouchPad
under the control of the generic Windows ps2 driver and will not have access
to the Synaptics Features.
Perhaps your OS was reinstalled and Synaptics Driver was installed without
preceding install of Chipsets and/or Notebook System Software.
I have had excellent results from downloading and installing Synaptics Drivers
from the Synaptics Download site {Link Here}
Perhaps they will work without the preceding Dell notebook software.
dark_line
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December 3rd, 2005 07:00
Thanks for answering. I downloaded the Synaptics driver from their site and installed it, it is working fine, including the virtual scrolling which I never used before ;-).
Anyway, the problem is still there : when the pointing device cursor (an arrow) is on the "little arrow" representing UP / DOWN / LEFT / RIGHT of any scrolling bar, I should be able to "tap" twice or three times on the touchpad, leave my finger ON the touchpad, and it should scroll in the document. This fonction which I use a lot does not work anymore, even after re-installing the driver. It does the same in all application softwares.
To get scrolling - not virtual scrolling -, I have to keep the cursor on one of these "arrows" and click on the left button of the touchpad :-(
So... any other idea ? What could be the problem ? A Windows setting ? I tried to check with F but no luck ?
Thanks
Art
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December 3rd, 2005 16:00
I don't recall ever doing that, just tried it on my old LM (which has Synaptics and I MUCH prefer it to the ALPS..)
and it not only worked as you say, but it did not need "finger ON ..." but Locked on and scrolled all the way
across.
This D800 has the best ALPS system I have used and it does the same thing, with the difference of needing to
hold finger on that third tap for a second for it to lock.
Settings for this would be controled on Synaptics (Properties, Settings) by checking boxes for "Tap again and hold"
and "Locking Drags" and on ALPS it is called "DragLock" with 'tap release' or 'timed release'.
What I like best about "virtual scroll" is that you can set a speed to match your reading speed.
ALPS does not offer "virtual scroll" but now has "Auto-Scroll" :) :) :) which places a two (or four) headed arrow
at pointer location and then a movement of the pointer will scroll up/down (left/right) at a speed that
can be accurately controled by distance from the 'arrow icon' to the pointer.