Please read if you have a Synaptics touchpad...

Sumanji · 27 Jun 2009 at 12:18

Hey,

Just noticed something very odd with both my netbook and my dad's laptop! After installing the latest Synaptics drivers for Vista, you get all the nifty features like touch scrolling, tap zones etc. However the driver seems to "kill" the bottom strip of the touchpad (where you tap to horizontal scroll), and all *vertical* movement is not registered.

Give it a go by keeping your finger along the bottom of the pad and making tiny circles - the pointer only moves left and right! On my dad's laptop this isn't an issue, but my netbook touchpad is tiny and this glitch kills the responsiveness!

I've tried removing the horizontal scroll zone, and disabling touch scrolling to no effect

Is there any way around this?!

Cheers,

Suman

alex24 · 27 Jun 2009 at 12:26

Perhaps this is stating the obvious, but roll back to the old drivers and fire off an email to their support?

ShaolinDreams · 27 Jun 2009 at 21:44

strange. i have the up to date xp driver on my netbook with no problems with either scrolling zones. hmmm

what netbook is it you have?

not sure what the problem is man.. appart from the obvious "its vista", try contacting your netbook manufacturer

"andy" · 27 Jun 2009 at 22:16

Sumanji said:
Give it a go by keeping your finger along the bottom of the pad and making tiny circles - the pointer only moves left and right!

are you sure it worked before ? my netbook has always been like that. assumed it was just because it was small and cheap. my macbook one isnt much better either. only will go up/down a tiny bit compared to left/right

Bigsy · 27 Jun 2009 at 22:54

Are you sure the drivers are actually the latest? The ones listed on the synaptic site are very old.

I use v12 from here http://laptopvideo2go.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t15103.html with this http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/ and have no issues.