[Solution] To everyone having issues with their Touchpad (two finger scrolling etc)

If you are having issues with the multitouch gestures and/or two finger scrolling on you synaptics touchpad, you have probably heard of TwoFingerScroll by madhatter.
Its a great tool but not perfect, also you have to deactivate certain functions in your synaptics driver in order for it to work properly.
The Dell or official Synaptics drivers available on the homepages won't help you solve the issues.

The newest driver from the synaptics page is 15.3.22 and from early 2011. Well it turns out there actually is a much newer version of the driver from 5. April 2012, version 16.0.2.0. The thing is, it's there but you cannot download it from their homepage.

I found it here Synaptics drivers

I installed it and EVERYTHING works smoothly, 2-finger-scroll works like on my roommate's macbook pro now.

Just thought I'd share this, because I didn't find a solution (apart from the twofingerscroll tool)

cheers

 

I downloaded and installed this new update to try it out and i can say that it does make all the gestures much more responsive. I used to have some trouble using the three finger flick to go to the next picture when viewing them, but now it is very good. Also the zoom gesture was improved. Thanks for the info Vipeout

 

tyvm vipeout! I bookmarked the link for future references to other members

 

The scrolling works as well if not better than the "Two-finger-scroll" application that I used previously.

VM appreciated

EDIT: Actually TwoFingerScroll still feels smoother after some more use

 

Very jerky scrolling for me, keeps stuttering.

 

Can you confirm that Fn+F3 for disabling the touchpad still works after installing this new driver? The orange led does turn on but i can still use the touchpad. Disabling the touchpad with Quickset doesn't work either.

 

The scrolling is much more precise now, twofingerscroll tended to be oversensitive no matter the settings.

Disabling the touchpad via FN+F3 indeed does not work, light is on but it's still activated.
But that is really the only issue I can see, everything else works perfect, 3 finger gestures, pinch to zoom etc.
I guess a genuine Dell driver is needed for the "disable touchpad command". But since Dell doesn't care to update their driver to a newer base, this is as good as it gets.

 

Also, if you type something, the touchpad will not respond immediantly for about a second afterwards.
Because of this and the problem with disabling the touchpad, I reverted back to the old driver. (Don't fix it if it ain't broke! comes to mind)

 

Think I found a solution that's the best of both worlds. Install the latest Synaptics package from the Synaptics website. This will work like the one that comes from Dell (i.e. you can disable the pad etc). Then go to the actual driver page and ask it to update from the internet automatically. It will actually install an older driver. Reboot and you should end up with a very responsive 2 finger scroll, pinch to zoom etc.

Hope that helps!