UX31 Ultrabook Touchpad Tips Tread.

Dear,

I use Sentelic Touchpad Driver 9.1.7.7 latest Asus deployed. This improved a pad from unsusable to barely usable for basic tasks, at least making the 2 fingers scroll (up down) usable, but still light years beyond MacbookAir.

Do you have any tricks to make this Touchpad better. The driver config options are a joke. It looks they are hard atached to some functions and Is there any way to set some gestures like 2Finger Left to BACK in the web browser? That is so natural.

As options are so limited the only thing that improved te usability of 2Finger scroll is disabling the zoom geastures so they stopped cutting into the scrolling?

Has anyone with Elantech pad can show us the options they have in a driver?
Screenshots? A little you tube video maybe?

 

i find the sentelic with the latest drivers perfect !

 

I find 2 possible answers,
-you have alien fingers
-you work for Asus/Sentilec

Either way you have to agree that driver is crap, and lack of "2F left" for "back" in a browser is not normal.

 

Sentelic's forward-backward gesture is a 3-finger left-right swipe. Seems to work (sometimes) in Windows Explorer and IE, but not Chrome, FF, or Opera.

But otherwise, agreed, this touchpad is maddeningly poor. I can't believe Asus would ship a premium machine with such an utter piece of crap. I switched from a MacBook Air, so the keyboard and mouse issues are all the more noticeable.

What I've done so far is:

• Set pointer speed to max (under Mouse, Pointer Options) - cursor speed is still not even as fast as setting the MacBook Air (under Windows) to bar 5 of 11
• Set vertical scroll to 1 or 2 lines per notch (under Mouse, Wheel) - makes scrolling smoother
• Disable pinch-to-zoom (2F Zoom In/Out) - necessary for two-finger scrolling to ever work, change doesn't work until reboot
• Disable curve (2F Curve) - necessary for two-finger scrolling, didn't see point in any case
• Disable on-pad click - I had a ton of accidental selections, clicks, double-clicks, etc. just touching the pad, so regretfully had to disable this; so now it behaves like Apples (have to press pad to click, can't just tap) but is slightly less infuriating; unfortunately this has a bug ("on-pad click" remains active for two-finger right-click despite this setting, so sometimes I get phantom right-clicks)
• Disable Asus SmartSense - this was highly annoying; after fighting with the keyboard to type something, the touchpad would just lock up until I put my finger in the top-center

After these tweaks, it's still far from ideal, but at least a bit better. The MBA's sensitivity is light-years ahead of the Zenbook's touchpad, and I'm dumbfounded by such stupidities as the fact that moving your finger in the virtual button zone does not move the cursor (W-T-F was the whole purpose of moving to virtual buttons then??!!).

Two-finger scrolling is quite poor, but what really compounds it is that there's no way to do one-finger (right-side strip) scrolling. My HP Envy 15 doesn't have the greatest two-finger scrolling either, but on that machine, I generally use one-finger instead.

Wasn't able to see the machine in person before buying- almost regretting my purchase now...

Quite tragic, because the rest of the machine (besides keyboard + mouse) is almost 80-85% there in terms of matching Apple quality. If the screen had better black levels and viewing angles, it'd be 90-95%.

The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVC\FSP has a bunch of touchpad-related settings. Will try experimenting with them...

 

One update so far based on my registry experiments (in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVC\FSP):

• Set GearIndex (in the registry key) from 6 to 9
• Set pointer speed to third notch from right (under Mouse, Pointer Options)

GearIndex seems to be the mouse acceleration, so by boosting that and reducing the Windows pointer speed, you get a faster, smoother mouse movement.

 

I have the latest driver for my elantech pad (ux31), but when scrolling down or up the page, it affects youtube videos and facebook photo albums. This is highly annoying. Any comments?

Sam

 

I'm also really annoyed by this. I have tried do disable horizontal scrolling in the touchpad settings but that also disables vertical scrolling. This is the carappiest trackapad I have ever used and if I knew it was this bad I wouldn't have bought the laptop in the first place.

 

Hmm...this does not seem to happen in IE 64 bit.

I was using Chrome when the issues occurred. That sucks as I love Chrome otherwise.

 

I discovered something kind of strange.

On some webpages, if you press one of the direction keys then use the two finger vertical scroll feature, it acts as if you pressed the scroll wheel in on a mouse. i.e. The wee compass icon appears and you can scroll up and down with one finger.

Test it out if you don't believe me.

EDIT: It works on this page actually, I just tested it there.

 

Yeah the middle-click (scroll icon) function has happened to me a few times accidentally, but I'm not able to intentionally recreate it. Wonder if any of the registry settings disable it...

 

I installed the latest elantech driver (Version V10.5.9.0) to fix the touchpad issue but it didn't do much so I was going to try the settings you used but only the controls speed were available. Neither did I find the registry key that you mentioned. So after snooping around the registry abit I found that in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse there is a property called MouseSensitivity and after changing it from 20 to 15 I stopped having frequent problems with the accidental clicks.
I don't know if my computer is different because I bought it in Mexico, and because of that the options aren't the same.

 

Yeah yours will be a bit different because it's the Elantech pad-- mine (and others' earlier in the thread) has the Sentelic.